Shontia
Shontia was last recorded in 2001, when 6 babies were given it; 330 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shontia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shontia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,068, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1989, the peak
Shontia peaked in 1989, when 19 girls were given it, #4,819 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 6 | #15,068 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,373 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,489 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,926 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,073 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,218 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,269 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,970 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 13 | #7,005 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,899 | 5.9 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 17 | #5,502 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,819 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,567 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,837 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,718 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,614 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,179 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,205 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,112 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,255 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,706 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,711 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,321 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,305 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,650 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,839 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,780 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,578 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,409 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,170 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shontia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shontia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shontia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shontia, and how old are they?
An estimated 319 Americans named Shontia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 33 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 288 people named Shontia (280 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 322 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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, Shontia is the fifth most given (7.1% 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 Shontia
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 Shontia and names like it
- Compare Shontia and ShontaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShontia peaked in 1989.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Shontia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shontia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.