girls:
1.7k births since 1967
#4065 (29th percentile)
boys:
88 births since 1976
#4498 (2nd percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1967
#5968 (23rd percentile)
The name Shaunte is the #5,968 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,786 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 22.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 22.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,065 (28.9% percentile) for all time with 1,698 births since 1967. For boys, it ranks #4,498 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 88 births since 1976.
Shaunte first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (1967 for girls and 1976 for boys). Birth data for Shaunte is available in 44 out of the 49 years between 1967 and 2015 (44 years for girls and 11 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 Shaunte has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 95.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Shaunte reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 13.9% percentile (ranked #651) with 67 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 67 births per million (ranked 13.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
For boys, Shaunte reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #667) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shaunte".
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Our model has identified 12 different pronunciations for the name Shaunte. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 21.4% confident that Shaunte is pronounced as shawnt, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shahn-TAY, at 19.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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