Shanti
Shanti was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,370 among girls’ names; 2,025 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,960 Americans named Shanti and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 19 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shanti by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shanti?
#9,370 among girls’ names, 2025
Shanti fell from #4,395 in 2015 to #9,370 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 18.5 to 6.8 per million.
77 babies in 2003, the peak
Shanti peaked in 2003, when 77 girls were given it, #2,238 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,370 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,361 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,208 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,966 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,578 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,156 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,379 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,364 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,316 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,230 | 19.8 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,395 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,666 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 28 | #5,001 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,699 | 24.4 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,989 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,098 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,178 | 20.1 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,638 | 23.8 |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,206 | 28.1 |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,169 | 27.9 |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,201 | 26.5 |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,116 | 27.2 |
| 2003 | 77 | #2,238 | 42.1 |
| 2002 | 62 | #2,546 | 34.5 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,257 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,282 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,836 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,760 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,823 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,023 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,951 | 15.4 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,214 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,958 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 39 | #3,019 | 21.2 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,141 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,659 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,379 | 16.8 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,280 | 11.8 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,840 | 20.1 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,187 | 16.9 |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,849 | 19.2 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,832 | 19.0 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,770 | 19.2 |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,572 | 21.9 |
| 1981 | 41 | #2,401 | 24.6 |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,880 | 34.9 |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,972 | 33.0 |
| 1978 | 47 | #2,044 | 30.7 |
| 1977 | 49 | #1,999 | 32.0 |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,374 | 23.9 |
| 1975 | 46 | #1,956 | 31.6 |
| 1974 | 46 | #1,906 | 31.3 |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,908 | 30.2 |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,882 | 29.6 |
| 1971 | 44 | #1,961 | 26.4 |
| 1970 | 32 | #2,388 | 18.3 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,141 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,552 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,362 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,425 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shanti a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,025 Americans recorded as Shanti, 93% are girls and 7% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shanti: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shanti, and how old are they?
1,960 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,025 Americans ever recorded as Shanti. The median Shanti alive today is 34 years old; half are between 19 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 3,160 people named Shanti (2,871 women and girls, 289 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,900 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 597 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 480 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 629 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 252 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Shanti born?
The states with the most babies named Shanti are California, Florida and New York, with 90% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 338 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 72 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 67 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 26 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Shanti is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shanti is most over-represented in California: since 1966 it was given 1.3 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 Shanti 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,635 babies since 1880, Shanti is the fourth most given (8.9% 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 Shanti
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 Shanti and names like it
- Compare Shanti and ShanteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShanti peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shanti since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Shanti.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shanti alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.