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Shawnta

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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
Babies named Shawnta, by year of birthgirls
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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

Decadegirls named Shawnta
1960s38
1970s630
1980s789
1990s309
2000s46

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.

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.