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Shantae

Girls' name

Variant of Chanté

Shantae has been given to 1,589 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1986, with 87 recorded.

Babies named Shantae, 2019

1 in 694,000

Shantae over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shantae: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Chanté

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shantae means

Shantae is a variant of Chanté.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Shantae is used in African American (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʃɑn.ˈteɪ/ for Shantae.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Chanté.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,583 girls were recorded with the name Shantae between 1969 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 87 in 1986; its best national rank was #1,464 in 1986.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Shantae between 1978 and 1978. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1978; its best national rank was #5,657 in 1978.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Shantae?

Shantae had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shantae sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shantae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shantaes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shantae was born before 1987 — so the typical Shantae is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
40.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,583
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1980s — 40.9% of all recorded uses (648).

Is Shantae 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1986 (87)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,464
1986

Spellings of Shantae

Shantae is not the most common spelling — Shana is, with 15.5% against Shantae's 0.83%.

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 Shantae is used

Across 1910–2025, Shantae was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 232,349 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in 100,000
  5. 5Virginia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in —
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8Louisiana1 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. Shantae has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shantae around the world

Where Shantae 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 & Wales
    1996–2012
    #5,876
    in 2012
  • Canada
    2000–2000
    #2,489
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    2003–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Shantae by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,464
1986
Peak year
1986
87 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
1,583
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,657
1978
Peak year
1978
6 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
1978
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shantae

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Shantae

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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