Shaunte — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shaunte

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,698 babies named Shaunte between 1967 and 2015, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shaunte currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1978, when 110 babies received it in a single year. Shaunte is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 88 additional births since 1976.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shaunte performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 836 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Shaunte shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 180 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Shaunte in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shaunte in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,698 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.