Shanta — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shanta

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,112 babies named Shanta between 1958 and 2014, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shanta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1978, when 360 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shanta performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 2,026 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Shanta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 363 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Shanta in 25 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shanta in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 5,112 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.