Feminine dossier · first seen 1961

Shantay

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Shantay
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1987

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Millennial

1961Peak 19872024

Peak year

1987

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,270

Shantay has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Millennial naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1987, when 72 girls were named Shantay.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,270 Americans have been named Shantay and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1961.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationMillennial

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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