Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Shantey

#35,337 most common girls' name of all time · #56,766 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1977–1992

Rank among girls
#35,337
Rank overall
#56,766 of 105,966
First appeared
1977
Years on the list
7 of 146
All-time
37
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1992 #12,483
Best rank
#9,978 1979
Girls Boys peak 6/yr
1980

Shantey first appears in 1977. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1992 6 — 6 #12,483
1991 5 — 5 #14,171
1988 5 — 5 #12,907
1986 5 — 5 #12,045
1980 5 — 5 #11,665
1979 6 — 6 #9,978
1977 5 — 5 #11,236