Shanteria — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shanteria

The Social Security Administration has registered 703 babies named Shanteria between 1980 and 2008, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shanteria currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 51 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shanteria performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 374 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Shanteria shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 225 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Shanteria in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shanteria 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 703 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.