Shanterria — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shanterria

The Social Security Administration has registered 251 babies named Shanterria between 1973 and 2008, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shanterria currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 25 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shanterria performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 128 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shanterria shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 80 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Shanterria in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shanterria 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 251 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.