girls:
29 births since 1989
#5687 (0th percentile)
boys:
48 births since 1975
#4538 (1st percentile)
overall:
77 births since 1975
#7662 (1st percentile)
The name Shantez is the #7,662 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 77 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 1.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,538 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 48 births since 1975. For girls, it ranks #5,687 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 29 births since 1989.
Shantez first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (1975 for boys and 1989 for girls). Birth data for Shantez is available in 10 out of the 24 years between 1975 and 1998 (8 years for boys and 5 years for girls). 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 Shantez has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (62.3% of all recorded births). In 1998, 100.0% of babies named Shantez were boys.
For boys, Shantez reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1998.
For girls, Shantez reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #821) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1997.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shantez".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Shantez. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.3% confident that Shantez is pronounced as shahn-TEHZ, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHAN-tehz, at 28.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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