Shaunte
Shaunte was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 1,786 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,720 Americans named Shaunte and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 37 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaunte by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaunte?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,721, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
124 babies in 1978, the peak
Shaunte peaked in 1978, when 124 babies were given it (110 girls, #1,160 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,721 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,762 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,020 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,045 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,906 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,737 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,796 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,312 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,373 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,876 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 7 | #12,921 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,786 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,206 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,188 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,025 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,643 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,515 | 17.9 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,756 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,639 | 25.5 |
| 1991 | 61 | #2,179 | 32.5 |
| 1990 | 70 | #1,965 | 36.9 |
| 1989 | 55 | #2,212 | 29.8 |
| 1988 | 69 | #1,817 | 38.7 |
| 1987 | 92 | #1,428 | 52.9 |
| 1986 | 90 | #1,434 | 52.5 |
| 1985 | 102 | #1,317 | 59.3 |
| 1984 | 74 | #1,549 | 43.9 |
| 1983 | 90 | #1,342 | 53.9 |
| 1982 | 80 | #1,507 | 47.2 |
| 1981 | 88 | #1,405 | 52.8 |
| 1980 | 96 | #1,327 | 57.8 |
| 1979 | 96 | #1,311 | 59.8 |
| 1978 | 110 | #1,160 | 71.8 |
| 1977 | 86 | #1,337 | 56.1 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,787 | 19.1 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,237 | 15.1 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,297 | 14.3 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,808 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,381 | 12.5 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,633 | 10.8 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,214 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,379 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,439 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,946 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaunte a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,786 Americans recorded as Shaunte, 95% are girls and 5% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shaunte: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaunte, and how old are they?
1,720 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,786 Americans ever recorded as Shaunte. The median Shaunte alive today is 42 years old; half are between 37 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 1,507 people named Shaunte (1,407 women and girls, 100 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,735 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 561 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,030 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 126 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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).
Where are babies named Shaunte born?
The states with the most babies named Shaunte are California, New York and Texas, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 186 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 120 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 83 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 65 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 60 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 46 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 39 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 16 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shaunte with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 19,097 babies since 1880, Shaunte is the fourth most given (9.4% 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 Shaunte
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 Shaunte and names like it
- Compare Shaunte and ShanteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShaunte peaked in 1978.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaunte since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Shaunte.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shaunte alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.