Shaunta
Shaunta was last recorded in 2006, when 7 babies were given it; 1,230 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,180 Americans named Shaunta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 40 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaunta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaunta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,905, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
123 babies in 1979, the peak
Shaunta peaked in 1979, when 123 babies were given it (115 girls, #1,160 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 7 | #14,905 | 3.7 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,778 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,017 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,964 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,655 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,713 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,968 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,478 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,198 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,433 | 9.8 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 21 | #4,774 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 19 | #5,025 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,028 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,628 | 23.0 |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,226 | 28.2 |
| 1986 | 48 | #2,187 | 28.0 |
| 1985 | 78 | #1,559 | 45.3 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,863 | 34.4 |
| 1983 | 59 | #1,809 | 35.3 |
| 1982 | 71 | #1,636 | 41.9 |
| 1981 | 62 | #1,804 | 37.2 |
| 1980 | 75 | #1,569 | 45.2 |
| 1979 | 115 | #1,160 | 71.6 |
| 1978 | 109 | #1,166 | 71.2 |
| 1977 | 81 | #1,401 | 52.8 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,384 | 14.3 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,140 | 15.8 |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,546 | 20.4 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,807 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,685 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,138 | 13.2 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,414 | 10.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,457 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,138 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,652 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,446 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaunta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,230 Americans recorded as Shaunta, 97% are girls and 3% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shaunta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaunta, and how old are they?
1,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,230 Americans ever recorded as Shaunta. The median Shaunta alive today is 45 years old; half are between 40 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 935 people named Shaunta (886 women and girls, 49 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,192 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 552 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 588 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 38 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,635 babies since 1880, Shaunta is the eighth most given (5.4% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shaunta
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shaunta and names like it
- Compare Shaunta and ShanteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShaunta peaked in 1979.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaunta since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Shaunta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shaunta alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.