girls:
1k births since 1967
#4708 (18th percentile)
boys:
80 births since 1971
#4506 (2nd percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1967
#6651 (14th percentile)
The name Shonte is the #6,651 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,088 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 14.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,708 (17.6% percentile) for all time with 1,008 births since 1967. For boys, it ranks #4,506 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 80 births since 1971.
Shonte first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (1967 for girls and 1971 for boys). Birth data for Shonte is available in 36 out of the 37 years between 1967 and 2003 (36 years for girls and 12 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 Shonte has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 92.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Shonte reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 6.6% percentile (ranked #747) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 33 births per million (ranked 6.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2003.
For boys, Shonte reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #649) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shonte".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Shonte. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.7% confident that Shonte is pronounced as SHAHN-tay, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shahnt, at 22.6% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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