girls:
5.8k births since 1964
#2182 (62nd percentile)
boys:
216 births since 1972
#4370 (5th percentile)
overall:
6k births since 1964
#3488 (55th percentile)
The name Shante is the #3,488 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,030 recorded births since 1964. This represents the 54.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,182 (61.8% percentile) for all time with 5,814 births since 1964. For boys, it ranks #4,370 (4.6% percentile) for all time with 216 births since 1972.
Shante first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1964 (1964 for girls and 1972 for boys). Birth data for Shante is available in 53 out of the 60 years between 1964 and 2023 (53 years for girls and 23 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Shante has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 96.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Shante reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 40.7% percentile (ranked #475) with 196 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 196 births per million (ranked 40.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1995, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Shante ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 2.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Shante reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #655) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shante".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Shante. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.6% confident that Shante is pronounced as shahn-TAY, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shuhn-TAY, at 14.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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