Shantara
Shantara was last recorded in 2000, when 5 babies were given it; 146 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shantara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shantara?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,162, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1989, the peak
Shantara peaked in 1989, when 15 girls were given it, #5,789 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5 | #17,162 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,827 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,195 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,985 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,348 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,402 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,979 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,874 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,399 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,789 | 8.1 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 13 | #6,202 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,890 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,038 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,172 | 4.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,254 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,828 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,585 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shantara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shantara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shantara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shantara, and how old are they?
An estimated 142 Americans named Shantara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 33 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 137 people named Shantara (135 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 143 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 1,734 babies since 1880, Shantara is the fifth most given (8.4% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shantara
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shantara and names like it
- Compare Shantara and ShanteriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShantara peaked in 1989.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Shantara.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shantara alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.