How rare is the name Shanta?

4,799 people in the United States have the first name Shanta, about 1 in 62,936. It ranks #4,039 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SHANTA

#4,039

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,799
About
1 in 62,936
This common or more
83.4%
Who bears it

Of the 4,799 people named Shanta, 71% reported their origin as Black, 17.1% as Asian or Pacific Islander and 5.8% as White. 97.2% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Shanta peaked in 1978, when 378 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19582014
Peak year
1978
Births that year
378
In 2014
5 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,254 babies have been given the name since 1958. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Shanta by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,290. The largest share of babies named Shanta, 49.1%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1950s#14,8235
1960s#3,476302
1970s#1,2902,077
1980s#1,4062,076
1990s#3,600646
2000s#13,732129
2010s#34,36919
Baby boom 1946–641.4%
Generation X 1965–8049.1%
Millennials 1981–9644.8%
Generation Z 1997–124.5%
2013 and later0.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Shanta is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shanta has been most common in Mississippi (4.6×), South Carolina (3.2×), and Georgia (3×), and least common in California (0.55×).

3,804 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Shanta

#4,037 Laquita · 4,800#4,037 Venkata · 4,800#4,040 Danyelle · 4,798#4,040 Reem · 4,798

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Shanta, most common first.

#3,162 Shanda · 6,888#3,906 Shante · 5,003#5,444 Shanti · 3,160#5,959 Shanita · 2,763#9,469 Shantae · 1,465#9,601 Shawnta · 1,437#10,455 Shonta · 1,274#11,629 Shant · 1,096

Also a last name

As a last name, Shanta ranks #80,815 of 156,621, with 253 people. See Shanta as a last name

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