Shonte — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shonte

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,008 babies named Shonte between 1967 and 2003, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shonte currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2003. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 58 babies received it in a single year. Shonte is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 80 additional births since 1971.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shonte performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 432 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shonte shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 90 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Shonte in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shonte in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,008 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.