girls:
5.1k births since 1958
#2364 (59th percentile)
boys:
142 births since 1971
#4444 (3rd percentile)
overall:
5.3k births since 1958
#3768 (51st percentile)
The name Shanta is the #3,768 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,254 recorded births since 1958. This represents the 51.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 51.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,364 (58.6% percentile) for all time with 5,112 births since 1958. For boys, it ranks #4,444 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 142 births since 1971.
Shanta first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1958 (1958 for girls and 1971 for boys). Birth data for Shanta is available in 54 out of the 57 years between 1958 and 2014 (54 years for girls and 16 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Shanta has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Shanta reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 41.7% percentile (ranked #441) with 219 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 219 births per million (ranked 41.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
For boys, Shanta reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #663) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shanta".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Shanta. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Shanta is pronounced as SHAHN-tuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHAN-tuh, at 36.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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