Shanteria
Shanteria was last recorded in 2008, when 10 babies were given it; 703 Americans have been recorded with it between 1980 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shanteria by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shanteria?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,469, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
51 babies in 1991, the peak
Shanteria peaked in 1991, when 51 girls were given it, #2,472 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 10 | #11,469 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,505 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,193 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,681 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,557 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,184 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,207 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,778 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,281 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,784 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 28 | #4,123 | 15.8 |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,211 | 21.3 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,948 | 23.4 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,066 | 21.6 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,924 | 23.0 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,867 | 23.2 |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,077 | 20.6 |
| 1991 | 51 | #2,472 | 27.2 |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,726 | 22.6 |
| 1989 | 44 | #2,598 | 23.9 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,577 | 23.6 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,703 | 21.3 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,344 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,420 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,692 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,252 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,024 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,829 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,125 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shanteria a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shanteria has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shanteria: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shanteria, and how old are they?
An estimated 688 Americans named Shanteria and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 29 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 544 people named Shanteria (544 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 692 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Where are babies named Shanteria born?
The states with the most babies named Shanteria are Georgia, Florida and Mississippi, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 225 | not ranked | 11.1× |
| Florida | 169 | not ranked | 5.0× |
| Mississippi | 12 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Alabama | 10 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Shanteria is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shanteria is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1980 it was given 11.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shanteria with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 1,535 babies since 1880, Shanteria is the most given (46% of them).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shanteria | 703 | under 5 | 1991 |
| Shantoria | 351 | under 5 | 1987 |
| Shanterria | 251 | under 5 | 1997 |
| Shantara | 146 | under 5 | 1989 |
| Shantera | 84 | under 5 | 1990 |
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 Shanteria
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 Shanteria and names like it
- Compare Shanteria and ShantoriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShanteria peaked in 1991.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shanteria since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Shanteria.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shanteria alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.