Shonta
Shonta 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
- 1977114 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1964
- 1,678people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,604 girls have been named Shonta in the United States since 1964, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1977, with 114 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 114 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1980, and the 1970s alone account for 43%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 74 boys have also been given it, 4.4% of the total.
By decade
In 1977, its biggest year
Shonta 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 Shonta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shawannapeak 1977
- Latashiapeak 1977
- Shantapeak 1978
- Roshandapeak 1979
- Heatherpeak 1975
- Shalondapeak 1980
- Lashondapeak 1977
- Shawandapeak 1977
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.