Shante
Shante is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 550th, in 1985.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1990368 births
- Best rank
- #550in 1985
- Since 1964
- 6,030people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,814 girls have been named Shante in the United States since 1964, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1990, with 368 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 368 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1987, and the 1980s alone account for 44%. It has spent 17 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 216 boys have also been given it, 3.6% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1990, its biggest year
Shante was the 613th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1990 were Jessica, Ashley, Brittany, Amanda and Samantha. See all of 1990.
Names that rose and fell with Shante
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shantaepeak 1986
- Caressapeak 1987
- Alishiapeak 1990
- Shaneepeak 1990
- Samathapeak 1989
- Taneishapeak 1990
- Taneshiapeak 1987
- Markitapeak 1985
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.