Shanti — #6212 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Shanti

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,874 babies named Shanti between 1966 and 2024, spanning 59 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shanti currently holds the #6212 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 77 babies received it in a single year. Shanti is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 140 additional births since 1970.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shanti performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 460 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Shanti shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 317 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Shanti in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shanti 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 1,874 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.