Shante
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
Shante is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines≈1 in 7.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 38Kfew records
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis≈1 in 43K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 312 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
5,003 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shante counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 5,003 | 1 in 66K | 4.8K | Shante | 312 |
| GH Ghana | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Shante | 5 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Shante | 21 |
| IN India | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | 9 | Shante | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Shante | 56 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Shante | 4 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | 3 | — | 2 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 2 | — | 2 |
5,003 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Shante Carverb. 1971USAmerican football and basketball player
- Shante Evansb. 1991USAmerican-Slovenian basketball player
- Shante Thandiso Keleboglie Kotib. 2006ZAgymnast
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.8K | #3,906 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 368 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1985 | 361 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 329 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 325 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 319 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 287 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 256 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 251 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 232 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 224 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 201 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Shante a male or female name?
- Shante is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Shante have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.0 thousand people named Shante, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shante.
- How common is the name Shante?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,003 people named Shante in 2020, about 1 in 66 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Shante?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shanteThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shante”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.