Shawnta — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shawnta

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,812 babies named Shawnta between 1965 and 2008, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shawnta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 132 babies received it in a single year. Shawnta is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 118 additional births since 1970.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shawnta performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 789 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shawnta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 118 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Maryland. In total, SSA state-level files list Shawnta in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shawnta 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 1,812 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.