Shawnta
Shawnta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1977132 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1965
- 1,930people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,812 girls have been named Shawnta in the United States since 1965, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1977, with 132 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 132 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1982, and the 1980s alone account for 44%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 118 boys have also been given it, 6.1% of the total.
By decade
In 1977, its biggest year
Shawnta was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1977 were Jennifer, Melissa, Amy, Jessica and Heather. See all of 1977.
Names that rose and fell with Shawnta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Natishapeak 1980
- Lakitapeak 1986
- Lakeishapeak 1979
- Latishapeak 1979
- Lashanapeak 1979
- Lacreshapeak 1980
- Shavondapeak 1978
- Lashawndapeak 1978
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.