Shawntae
Shawntae was last recorded in 2010, when 8 babies were given it; 869 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shawntae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shawntae?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,284, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
56 babies in 1978, the peak
Shawntae peaked in 1978, when 56 babies were given it (46 girls, #2,086 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8 | #13,284 | 4.5 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,096 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,428 | 4.2 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,964 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,611 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,746 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,263 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,960 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,433 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,163 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 20 | #5,190 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,037 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,573 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,599 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,788 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 44 | #2,763 | 23.9 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,282 | 18.1 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,136 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,971 | 20.1 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,784 | 21.3 |
| 1987 | 47 | #2,301 | 27.0 |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,332 | 25.6 |
| 1985 | 54 | #2,015 | 31.4 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,899 | 18.4 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,643 | 20.4 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,242 | 15.9 |
| 1981 | 35 | #2,647 | 21.0 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,641 | 21.7 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,424 | 15.0 |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,086 | 30.0 |
| 1977 | 55 | #1,853 | 35.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,977 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,023 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,964 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,510 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,369 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,235 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,828 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shawntae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 869 Americans recorded as Shawntae, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shawntae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shawntae, and how old are they?
An estimated 840 Americans named Shawntae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 34 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 687 people named Shawntae (649 women and girls, 38 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 847 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,537 babies since 1880, Shawntae is the third most given (13% 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 Shawntae
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 Shawntae and names like it
- Compare Shawntae and ShawntaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShawntae peaked in 1978.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shawntae since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Shawntae.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shawntae alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.