Shauntae
Shauntae was last recorded in 2009, when 6 babies were given it; 694 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shauntae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shauntae?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,960, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
44 babies in 1983, the peak
Shauntae peaked in 1983, when 44 girls were given it, #2,230 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 6 | #16,960 | 3.3 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,127 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,779 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,588 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,959 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,882 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,458 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,201 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,042 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,917 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 9 | #9,459 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,422 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,494 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,159 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,949 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,616 | 16.0 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,350 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,306 | 17.4 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,460 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,905 | 19.6 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,190 | 16.9 |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,475 | 23.2 |
| 1984 | 35 | #2,664 | 20.8 |
| 1983 | 44 | #2,230 | 26.3 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,329 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 38 | #2,525 | 22.8 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,931 | 18.7 |
| 1979 | 43 | #2,266 | 26.8 |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,460 | 23.5 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,248 | 15.7 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,495 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,814 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,064 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,229 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shauntae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shauntae has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 34 years of records.
Girls and boys named Shauntae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shauntae, and how old are they?
An estimated 671 Americans named Shauntae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 35 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 650 people named Shauntae (615 women and girls, 35 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 678 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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 18,343 babies since 1880, Shauntae is the seventh most given (3.8% 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 Shauntae
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 Shauntae and names like it
- Compare Shauntae and ShanteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShauntae peaked in 1983.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shauntae since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Shauntae.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shauntae alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.