Shawnta
Shawnta was last recorded in 2008, when 7 babies were given it; 1,930 Americans have been recorded with it between 1965 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,850 Americans named Shawnta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 38 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shawnta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shawnta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,146, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
147 babies in 1978, the peak
Shawnta peaked in 1978, when 147 babies were given it (132 girls, #1,036 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 7 | #15,146 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,234 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,799 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,740 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,394 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,538 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,603 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,200 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,321 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,189 | 11.5 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 14 | #6,682 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,401 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,359 | 19.0 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,868 | 23.2 |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,601 | 26.0 |
| 1991 | 55 | #2,344 | 29.3 |
| 1990 | 54 | #2,336 | 28.4 |
| 1989 | 58 | #2,134 | 31.5 |
| 1988 | 78 | #1,669 | 43.8 |
| 1987 | 81 | #1,565 | 46.6 |
| 1986 | 71 | #1,664 | 41.4 |
| 1985 | 93 | #1,390 | 54.0 |
| 1984 | 79 | #1,473 | 46.9 |
| 1983 | 73 | #1,550 | 43.7 |
| 1982 | 80 | #1,508 | 47.2 |
| 1981 | 86 | #1,430 | 51.6 |
| 1980 | 90 | #1,391 | 54.2 |
| 1979 | 107 | #1,223 | 66.7 |
| 1978 | 132 | #1,036 | 86.2 |
| 1977 | 132 | #1,021 | 86.1 |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,960 | 31.4 |
| 1975 | 39 | #2,191 | 26.8 |
| 1974 | 48 | #1,845 | 32.7 |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,392 | 21.9 |
| 1972 | 31 | #2,387 | 20.4 |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,931 | 27.0 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,551 | 10.3 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,383 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,558 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,947 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,447 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,347 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shawnta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,930 Americans recorded as Shawnta, 94% are girls and 6% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shawnta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shawnta, and how old are they?
1,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,930 Americans ever recorded as Shawnta. The median Shawnta alive today is 44 years old; half are between 38 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 1,437 people named Shawnta (1,365 women and girls, 72 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,870 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 | 797 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 962 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 89 |
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 Shawnta born?
The states with the most babies named Shawnta are Ohio, California and Maryland, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Maryland is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 123 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 111 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 96 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| New York | 65 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 61 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 49 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 46 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| South Carolina | 39 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 29 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 27 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Shawnta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shawnta is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1965 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Shawnta 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 6,042 babies since 1880, Shawnta is the most given (32% 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 Shawnta
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 Shawnta and names like it
- Compare Shawnta and ShawnteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShawnta peaked in 1978.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shawnta since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Shawnta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shawnta alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.