Shontae
Shontae was last recorded in 2012, when 7 babies were given it; 852 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shontae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shontae?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,755, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
54 babies in 1985, the peak
Shontae peaked in 1985, when 54 girls were given it, #2,016 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7 | #14,755 | 4.0 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,118 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,146 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,799 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,627 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,032 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,892 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,066 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,162 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,232 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 11 | #8,249 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,511 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,581 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,665 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,504 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,656 | 16.3 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,699 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,608 | 15.8 |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,861 | 21.2 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,854 | 20.8 |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,645 | 21.9 |
| 1986 | 45 | #2,293 | 26.2 |
| 1985 | 54 | #2,016 | 31.4 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,313 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,135 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,243 | 15.9 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,053 | 17.4 |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,743 | 20.5 |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,045 | 31.1 |
| 1978 | 32 | #2,669 | 20.9 |
| 1977 | 34 | #2,553 | 22.2 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,934 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,385 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,994 | 16.4 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,562 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,259 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,773 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,953 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,687 | 6.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shontae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 852 Americans recorded as Shontae, 99% are girls and 1% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shontae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shontae, and how old are they?
An estimated 821 Americans named Shontae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 35 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 685 people named Shontae (653 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 829 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,807 babies since 1880, Shontae is the third most given (18% 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 Shontae
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 Shontae and names like it
- Compare Shontae and ShontaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShontae peaked in 1985.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shontae since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Shontae.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shontae alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.