Shawntay — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shawntay

The Social Security Administration has registered 695 babies named Shawntay between 1967 and 2007, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shawntay currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2007. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 41 babies received it in a single year. Shawntay is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 35 additional births since 1974.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shawntay performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 268 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shawntay shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 29 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Shawntay in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shawntay 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 695 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.