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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Shonta

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

1,604

peak year 1977

More common than

92%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1977
114 births
Best rank
#1,125
in 1977
First recorded
1964
#7,664 that year
Last recorded
2003
no later published record
Average birth year
1981
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
40 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 1977114#1,125Peak
  2. 197897#1,274
  3. 197982#1,468
  4. 198081#1,492
  5. 198574#1,619

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,125 in 1977 · peak births 114 in 1977

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 4% boys■ 96% girls

74 boys · 1,604 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Shonta has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.