Shanta
Shanta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 518th, in 1978.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1978360 births
- Best rank
- #518in 1978
- Since 1958
- 5,254people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,112 girls have been named Shanta in the United States since 1958, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1978, with 360 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 360 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1980, and the 1980s alone account for 40%. It has spent 17 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 142 boys have also been given it, 2.7% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1978, its biggest year
Shanta was the 518th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1978 were Jennifer, Melissa, Jessica, Amy and Heather. See all of 1978.
Names that rose and fell with Shanta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shawannapeak 1977
- Latashiapeak 1977
- Shontapeak 1977
- Roshandapeak 1979
- Letishapeak 1979
- Toshapeak 1980
- Latishapeak 1979
- Shannapeak 1978
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.