Shawnte
Shawnte was last recorded in 2007, when 5 babies were given it; 1,487 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Shawnte and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 39 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shawnte by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shawnte?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #20,098, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
215 babies in 1977, the peak
Shawnte peaked in 1977, when 215 babies were given it (207 girls, #744 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 5 | #20,098 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,827 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,965 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,972 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,019 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,250 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,100 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,201 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,969 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,663 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 9 | #9,464 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,185 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,495 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,564 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,962 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 33 | #3,350 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,420 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,088 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,630 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 57 | #1,986 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 59 | #1,907 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 66 | #1,738 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 50 | #2,045 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 51 | #2,015 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 62 | #1,783 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 58 | #1,881 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 73 | #1,601 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 89 | #1,390 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 113 | #1,140 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 207 | #744 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,531 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,238 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,193 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,930 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,383 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,760 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,715 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,988 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,559 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shawnte a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,487 Americans recorded as Shawnte, 93% are girls and 7% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shawnte: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shawnte, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,487 Americans ever recorded as Shawnte. The median Shawnte alive today is 45 years old; half are between 39 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 1,178 people named Shawnte (1,090 women and girls, 88 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,441 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 654 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 688 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 83 |
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 Shawnte born?
The states with the most babies named Shawnte are California, Ohio and New York, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 168 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 99 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 56 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 43 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Maryland | 37 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 25 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 24 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 16 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Shawnte 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 6,537 babies since 1880, Shawnte is the second most given (23% 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 Shawnte
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 Shawnte and names like it
- Compare Shawnte and ShawntaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShawnte peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shawnte since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Shawnte.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shawnte alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.