Shontay
Shontay was last recorded in 2000, when 6 babies were given it; 577 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shontay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shontay?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,749, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
44 babies in 1977, the peak
Shontay peaked in 1977, when 44 babies were given it (39 girls, #2,332 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 6 | #14,749 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,230 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,787 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,521 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,615 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,539 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,166 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,826 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,466 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,355 | 12.1 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 13 | #6,476 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,852 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,087 | 17.8 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,539 | 14.6 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,153 | 16.9 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,704 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,411 | 14.4 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,748 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,720 | 13.2 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,400 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,320 | 15.6 |
| 1978 | 32 | #2,670 | 20.9 |
| 1977 | 39 | #2,332 | 25.4 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,650 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,950 | 17.1 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,836 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,933 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,868 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,503 | 7.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,277 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 10 | #5,001 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 5 | #8,012 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shontay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 577 Americans recorded as Shontay, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shontay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shontay, and how old are they?
An estimated 553 Americans named Shontay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 38 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 490 people named Shontay (462 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 559 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,647 babies since 1880, Shontay is the fourth most given (12% 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 Shontay
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 Shontay and names like it
- Compare Shontay and ShontaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShontay peaked in 1977.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shontay since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Shontay.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shontay alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.