Shawnte — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shawnte

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,385 babies named Shawnte between 1968 and 2007, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shawnte currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2007. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 207 babies received it in a single year. Shawnte is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 102 additional births since 1972.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shawnte performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 552 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shawnte shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 168 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Shawnte in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shawnte 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 1,385 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.