Shanta
Last seen for girls in 2014 at #16,513 · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #6,941
Given to girls 97.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1978 · 360 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,112since 1958
Shanta over time
Rank among girls' names. Shanta has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
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| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | — | |
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| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | — | |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | — | |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | — | |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | — | |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | — | |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | — | |
| 2005 | #8,883 | 12 | — | |
| 2004 | #6,768 | 17 | — | |
| 2003 | #7,207 | 15 | — | |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | — | |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,491 | 20 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,895 | 30 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,426 | 35 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,626 | 31 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,093 | 38 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,421 | 53 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,209 | 60 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,741 | 85 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,688 | 89 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,619 | 93 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,247 | 132 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,091 | 153 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #1,073 | 147 | — | |
| 1987 | #878 | 193 | — | |
| 1986 | #820 | 205 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #726 | 237 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #816 | 194 | — | |
| 1983 | #869 | 175 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #794 | 203 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #679 | 255 | #3,858 | 10 |
| 1980 | #668 | 264 | #3,838 | 10 |
| 1979 | #584 | 312 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #517 | 360 | #2,473 | 18 |
| 1977 | #577 | 301 | #2,791 | 15 |
| 1976 | #840 | 163 | #3,724 | 9 |
| 1975 | #818 | 167 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #779 | 177 | #3,558 | 9 |
| 1973 | #911 | 135 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #919 | 134 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #944 | 136 | #3,146 | 10 |
| 1970 | #1,154 | 100 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,338 | 72 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,708 | 47 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,732 | 44 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,916 | 36 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,064 | 32 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,692 | 13 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,176 | 16 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,161 | 16 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,608 | 13 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,512 | 13 | — | |
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| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shanta! It came in at #6,103, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1958–1959, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Shanta is popular in 1987
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#207 · 1 in 1,136
- Mississippi#247 · 1 in 1,330
- District of Columbia#258 · 1 in 1,140
- North Carolina#337 · 1 in 2,329
- New Jersey#414 · 1 in 2,905
Best ever in a state: #157 in Mississippi, 1978.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| South Carolina | #207 | 16 | 1 in 1,136 |
| Mississippi | #247 | 10 | 1 in 1,330 |
| District of Columbia | #258 | 5 | 1 in 1,140 |
| North Carolina | #337 | 16 | 1 in 2,329 |
| New Jersey | #414 | 15 | 1 in 2,905 |
| Georgia | #422 | 13 | 1 in 3,015 |
| Virginia | #481 | 9 | 1 in 3,860 |
| Tennessee | #555 | 6 | 1 in 4,703 |
| Florida | #719 | 11 | 1 in 6,311 |
| Illinois | #739 | 11 | 1 in 6,598 |
| Michigan | #742 | 8 | 1 in 7,246 |
| Pennsylvania | #862 | 7 | 1 in 9,888 |
| New York | #971 | 12 | 1 in 9,322 |
| Ohio | #1,022 | 5 | 1 in 13,541 |
| Texas | #1,025 | 13 | 1 in 9,913 |
| California | #2,139 | 7 | 1 in 30,731 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Shanta
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2014
- Biggest jump: 263 spots in 1977 (#840 → #577)
- Biggest drop: 195 spots in 1988 (#878 → #1,073)
- Debuted 1958
- Peaked 1978 at #517 (360 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 1971–1987
- Highest: 1 in 4,255 girls born in 1978 were named Shanta (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 357,271 girls born in 2014 (0.00%)
- 39.6% of all girls named Shanta (2,026) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #6,103 (1958) | #6,103 |
| 1960s | 302 | #1,338 (1969) | #2,591 |
| 1970s | 1,985 | #517 (1978) | #804 |
| 1980s | 2,026 | #668 (1980) | #841 |
| 1990s | 646 | #1,247 (1990) | #2,497 |
| 2000s | 129 | #5,491 (2000) | #9,224 |
| 2010s | 19 | #13,347 (2011) | #14,436 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shanta in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 9,008 of them was named Shanta, which outranked 93.4% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).