Shawnette
Shawnette was last recorded in 2001, when 5 babies were given it; 750 Americans have been recorded with it between 1957 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shawnette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shawnette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,537, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
56 babies in 1976, the peak
Shawnette peaked in 1976, when 56 girls were given it, #1,727 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #17,537 | 2.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,124 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,583 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,595 | 3.9 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,196 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,408 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,373 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,214 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,714 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,676 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 10 | #6,869 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,461 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,766 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,100 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,143 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,850 | 19.3 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,389 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,730 | 20.2 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,652 | 20.9 |
| 1976 | 56 | #1,727 | 38.2 |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,399 | 23.3 |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,991 | 29.3 |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,974 | 28.8 |
| 1972 | 50 | #1,765 | 32.9 |
| 1971 | 50 | #1,793 | 30.1 |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,234 | 20.6 |
| 1969 | 50 | #1,722 | 29.6 |
| 1968 | 26 | #2,474 | 15.8 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,855 | 12.1 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,164 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,032 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,395 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,490 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,761 | 3.6 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,142 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,064 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,971 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shawnette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shawnette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shawnette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shawnette, and how old are they?
An estimated 701 Americans named Shawnette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 46 and 56. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 703 people named Shawnette (699 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 715 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,568 babies since 1880, Shawnette is the third most given (21% 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 Shawnette
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 Shawnette and names like it
- Compare Shawnette and ShawnteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShawnette peaked in 1976.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shawnette since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Shawnette.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shawnette alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.