Shontae as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Shontae

What is the meaning of the name Shontae ?

The baby name Shontae is a girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced shawn-TAY.

Shontae is African American, French, Latin in Origin.

Shontae is a modern American English feminine form most plausibly aligned with Shanté/Shantae, respellings of French Chanté. As a word, chanté is the past participle of chanter, to sing, from Latin cantāre, a frequentative of canere. The spelling with Sh- reflects English phonetic adaptation of French ch-, while final -ae is a late graphic flourish rather than a historical suffix. The literal inherited sense is sung.

Recorded use belongs to the late twentieth-century United States. SSA-derived summaries trace Shontae from 1969 and show its largest female birth year in 1985, placing it with post-Civil Rights African American naming patterns that favored new spellings and French-sounding endings. U.S. Census Bureau first-name tables for 2020 also show a predominantly Black bearer group, giving substantive evidence for African American cultural association. Variants cluster around Shantae, Shantay, Shante, Shawntae, and Chante.