Shonte
Shonte was last recorded in 2003, when 6 babies were given it; 1,088 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Shonte and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 37 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shonte by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shonte?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,484, in 2003; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
63 babies in 1977, the peak
Shonte peaked in 1977, when 63 babies were given it (54 girls, #1,872 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 6 | #15,484 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,893 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,224 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,492 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,990 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,441 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,512 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,217 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,356 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,364 | 13.3 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 32 | #3,486 | 17.4 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,921 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 38 | #3,009 | 20.0 |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,799 | 21.7 |
| 1988 | 48 | #2,321 | 27.0 |
| 1987 | 50 | #2,190 | 28.8 |
| 1986 | 49 | #2,164 | 28.6 |
| 1985 | 58 | #1,925 | 33.7 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,902 | 18.4 |
| 1983 | 37 | #2,511 | 22.1 |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,486 | 23.0 |
| 1981 | 44 | #2,297 | 26.4 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,645 | 21.7 |
| 1979 | 44 | #2,241 | 27.4 |
| 1978 | 44 | #2,153 | 28.7 |
| 1977 | 54 | #1,872 | 35.2 |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,379 | 23.9 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,951 | 17.1 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,673 | 19.1 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,904 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,966 | 15.1 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,791 | 15.6 |
| 1970 | 11 | #5,015 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,389 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,729 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,384 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shonte a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,088 Americans recorded as Shonte, 93% are girls and 7% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shonte: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shonte, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,088 Americans ever recorded as Shonte. The median Shonte alive today is 43 years old; half are between 37 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 926 people named Shonte (849 women and girls, 77 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,054 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 592 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 49 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,807 babies since 1880, Shonte 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 Shonte
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 Shonte and names like it
- Compare Shonte and ShontaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShonte peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shonte since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Shonte.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shonte alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.