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Shante

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Shante has been given to 6,030 babies in the U.S. since 1964. 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 1990, with 368 recorded.

Babies named Shante, 2023

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shante: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shante means

Shante is a given name.

The naming story behind Shante

Wikidata records Shante as a given name. The entity identifier is Q100572048, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,814 girls were recorded with the name Shante between 1964 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 368 in 1990; its best national rank was #550 in 1985.

In the United States, 216 boys were recorded with the name Shante between 1972 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1977; its best national rank was #2,057 in 1977.

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 Shante?

Shante had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 178,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
255,294 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shante 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 2023 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 255,294 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shante. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shantes were born

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

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
44.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,814
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (2,556).

Is Shante 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 1990 (368)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#550
1985

Spellings of Shante

Shante is not the most common spelling — Shana is, with 11.0% against Shante's 2.2%.

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 Shante is used

Across 1910–2025, Shante was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 32,531 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 10,000
  2. 2Maryland1 in 14,286
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 14,286
  4. 4Virginia1 in 16,667
  5. 5Georgia1 in 20,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 20,000
  7. 7New York1 in 20,000
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 20,000

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. Shante has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shante around the world

Where Shante 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
    1996–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1993–2005
    #2,828
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    2000–2004
    #700
    in 2004

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.

Notable people named Shante

People whose public names include Shante, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Shante 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
#550
1985
Peak year
1990
368 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
5,814
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,057
1977
Peak year
1977
24 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
216
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shante

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

ShaunteShawnteSharlaShastaShanaeShailaShayneShainaShanelShaniyaSharaShayleeShanellShamyaShaniaShaniShaynaShakiraShantiShaniceShaelynShantelShanayaShanta

Names with a curve like Shante

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shante, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ShanikaTaneshaCasieKeshiaCodyKatiFelishaSamathaTarahKandiceJaimieJesica

Sibling names for Shante

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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