Shante
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Shante by the numbers
Shante was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 368 babies in 1990, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Shante
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Shante. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Shanegod is gracious; anglicized form of Seán927 in the US (2017)
- Shant14 in the US (2017)
- ShayneGod is gracious; a modern spelling of Shane85 in the US (2017)
- Santipeace; a form of Shanti34 in England and Wales (2025)
- Shadeshadow; shade; darkness20 in the US (2017)
- Shaktipower; energy; divine feminine power19 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Shante
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