Shunta — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shunta

The Social Security Administration has registered 732 babies named Shunta between 1965 and 1998, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shunta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 70 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shunta performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 312 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shunta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 87 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Shunta in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shunta 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 732 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.