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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Shanta

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

5,112

peak year 1978

More common than

96%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1978
360 births
Best rank
#518
in 1978
First recorded
1958
#6,858 that year
Last recorded
2014
no later published record
Average birth year
1981
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
54 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1978360#518Peak
  2. 1979312#585
  3. 1977301#577
  4. 1980264#670
  5. 1981255#684

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #518 in 1978 · peak births 360 in 1978

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 3% boys■ 97% girls

142 boys · 5,112 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Shanta has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.