Shatonga
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shatonga has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1979, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Shatonga, 1980
1 in 344,000
Shatonga 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shatonga?
Shatonga had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1980, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1980
- 1 in 344,000
- 10 of 3,444,198 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 166,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1980
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 238,735 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shatonga sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1980 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 238,735 children born in 1980 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shatonga. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shatongas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shatonga was born before 1979 — so the typical Shatonga is around 46 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 52.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 21
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 52.4% of all recorded uses (11).
Is Shatonga 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1979 (11)
- Years since peak
- 46
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Shatonga
Shatonga is not the most common spelling — Sharonda is, with 38.7% against Shatonga's 0.14%.
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.
Shatonga by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shatonga
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shatonga
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.