Shanette
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shanette has been given to 826 babies in the U.S. since 1962. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1972, with 45 recorded.
Babies named Shanette, 2003
1 in 634,000
Shanette over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shanette?
Shanette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2003
- 1 in 634,000
- 6 of 3,801,425 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 304,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2003
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 439,159 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shanette sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2003 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 439,159 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shanette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shanettes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shanette was born before 1980 — so the typical Shanette is around 45 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 39.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 58.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 826
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 39.5% of all recorded uses (326).
Is Shanette rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1972 (45)
- Years since peak
- 53
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.8% average annual change
Spellings of Shanette
Shanette is not the most common spelling — Jeanette is, with 66.1% against Shanette's 0.33%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Shanette is used
Across 1910–2025, Shanette was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 386,127 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Mississippi1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
- 4Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Shanette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shanette around the world
Where Shanette ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1998–1998#3,848in 1998
- South Australia1967–1984#661in 1984
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shanette by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shanette
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shanette
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.