Shawnte
Shawnte is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 745th, in 1977.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1977207 births
- Best rank
- #745in 1977
- Since 1968
- 1,487people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,385 girls have been named Shawnte in the United States since 1968, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1977, with 207 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 207 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1981, and the 1980s alone account for 40%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 102 boys have also been given it, 6.9% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1977, its biggest year
Shawnte was the 745th most given girl’s name 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 Shawnte
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mandipeak 1977
- Nakeshapeak 1979
- Rashidapeak 1977
- Lakeishapeak 1979
- Tanikapeak 1982
- Nikiapeak 1975
- Lakieshapeak 1979
- Lashanapeak 1979
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.