Shavone
Shavone was last recorded in 1999, when 8 babies were given it; 473 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shavone by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shavone?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,198, in 1999; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
56 babies in 1979, the peak
Shavone peaked in 1979, when 56 girls were given it, #1,896 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 8 | #11,198 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,207 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,452 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,397 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,376 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,591 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,972 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,147 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,085 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,099 | 7.6 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 17 | #5,028 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,445 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,741 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,743 | 20.3 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,963 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,658 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,626 | 13.6 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,913 | 18.6 |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,529 | 22.9 |
| 1979 | 56 | #1,896 | 34.9 |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,232 | 27.4 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,282 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,034 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,845 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,856 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,232 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,931 | 4.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,979 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shavone a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shavone has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shavone: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shavone, and how old are they?
An estimated 455 Americans named Shavone and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 38 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 421 people named Shavone (404 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 460 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% 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).
How common is the spelling Shavone?
Shavone is a less common spelling of Shavonne: SSA has recorded 473 Shavone and 2,951 Shavonne since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,551 babies since 1880, Shavone is the third most given (10% 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 Shavone
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 Shavone and names like it
- Compare Shavone and ShavonneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShavone peaked in 1979.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shavone since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Shavone.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shavone alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.