Shantae
Last seen for girls in 2019 at #15,539 · Last seen for boys in 1978 at #5,059
Given to girls 99.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1986 · 87 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,583since 1969
Shantae over time
Rank among girls' names. Shantae has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
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| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | — | |
| 2018 | — | — | ||
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| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | — | |
| 2015 | — | — | ||
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| 2011 | — | — | ||
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | — | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | — | |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | — | |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | — | |
| 2006 | — | — | ||
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | — | |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,220 | 31 | — | |
| 2002 | #5,673 | 20 | — | |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 | — | |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 | — | |
| 1999 | #4,313 | 26 | — | |
| 1998 | #4,023 | 28 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,716 | 30 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,059 | 26 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,670 | 29 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,503 | 50 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,600 | 47 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,965 | 70 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,857 | 76 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,011 | 67 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,851 | 71 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,822 | 68 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,553 | 81 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,459 | 87 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,505 | 81 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,945 | 53 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,858 | 56 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,991 | 52 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,305 | 43 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,904 | 56 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,661 | 67 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,633 | 65 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #1,701 | 61 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,095 | 23 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,881 | 25 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,616 | 28 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,689 | 26 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,714 | 16 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,266 | 20 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shantae! It came in at #7,471, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2006, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Shantae is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Virginia#649 · 1 in 5,837
- Georgia#693 · 1 in 5,602
- Florida#797 · 1 in 6,696
- California#2,184 · 1 in 32,666
Best ever in a state: #512 in South Carolina, 1977.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Virginia | #649 | 5 | 1 in 5,837 |
| Georgia | #693 | 6 | 1 in 5,602 |
| Florida | #797 | 7 | 1 in 6,696 |
| California | #2,184 | 5 | 1 in 32,666 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Shantae
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2019
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1986 at #1,459 (87 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,719 girls born in 1986 were named Shantae (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 335,673 girls born in 2019 (0.00%)
- 40.9% of all girls named Shantae (648) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #7,471 (1969) | #7,471 |
| 1970s | 337 | #1,633 (1978) | #3,033 |
| 1980s | 648 | #1,459 (1986) | #1,819 |
| 1990s | 449 | #1,857 (1991) | #3,072 |
| 2000s | 128 | #4,220 (2003) | #8,999 |
| 2010s | 16 | #14,959 (2010) | #15,571 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shantae in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 23,959 of them was named Shantae, which outranked 86.1% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,645Towanda68
- #1,645Verna68
- #1,645Xochitl68
- #1,661Shantae67
- #1,661Autum67
- #1,661Billy67
- #1,661Collette67
- #1,678Brieanna66
- #1,678Candie66
- #1,678Chasidy66
Tied with 16 names at #1,661; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.