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.

Shantez**

#17,131 most common boys' name of all time · #44,716 across all names · 62% male / 38% female · used 1975–1998 · genuinely unisex

Rank among boys
#17,131
Rank overall
#44,716 of 105,966
First appeared
1975
Years on the list
10 of 146
All-time
77
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1990 #8,786
Best rank
#5,261 1979
Girls Boys peak 13/yr
1980

Shantez first appears in 1975. 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
1998 6 6 #8,911
1997 5 5 10 #9,769
1995 5 5
1992 8 8 #6,417
1991 6 6
1990 8 5 13 #8,786
1989 5 6 11 #7,500
1985 6 6 #6,260
1979 7 7 #5,261
1975 5 5 #6,298