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Shonte

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Shonte 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
198558 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1967
1,088people given the name
Babies named Shonte, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,008 girls have been named Shonte in the United States since 1967, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1985, with 58 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 58 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1984, and the 1980s alone account for 43%.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 80 boys have also been given it, 7.4% of the total.

By decade

Decadegirls named Shonte
1960s27
1970s314
1980s432
1990s215
2000s20

In 1985, its biggest year

Shonte was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1985 were Jessica, Ashley, Jennifer, Amanda and Sarah. See all of 1985.

Names that rose and fell with Shonte

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.