Girls' name · since 1975
Shontaye
35 babies named Shontaye in U.S. Social Security records since 1975, with the highest year being 1988. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #39,292 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 35
- born since 1975
- 1980s
- peak decade
Shontaye sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 35 recorded since 1975.
Shontaye has 35 recorded births among girls since 1975, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1975 to 1989.
- #39,292 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 35 born since 1975
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Shontaye ranks #39,292 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 35 born since 1975, peaking in the 1980s.
- #39,292 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 35
- born since 1975
- 1980s
- peak decade
Shontaye's 35 recorded births place it above 45.6% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Shontaye's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Shontaye's full recorded timeline at 1987, 51% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 49% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1975, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1988 peak of 8 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Shontaye popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1975–1989
- Peak year (1988)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 15 years of records
Shontaye by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (24 births, 69% of the file).
1980s was Shontaye's strongest decade.
24 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 69% of all-time use.
Shontaye births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
11 births
- 1980s
1980s
24 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 24 births (69% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Shontaye: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1988)
Similar record span (~14 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1975–1989 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Shontaye draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.