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The first name 
Shant

Shant is a male first name.

Shant – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Shant has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Shant. That means that a boy named Shant is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Shant.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Shant

Shant -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Shant. Boys named Shant have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 1,967 Shant ranked higher than ever before in 1985. By comparison, there have been 96 years in which the first name Shant has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their sons Shant only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Shant was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Shant -
at home in California and Massachusetts

Meeting a man or boy named Shant is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Shant can be found in only two: California and Massachusetts. No other state currently has residents named Shant. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Shant living in one state or another. (If your name is Shant and you live outside of California or Massachusetts, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Shant is in California, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00340% of all male residents are called Shant – that’s just one in 29,374! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 561 men going by that name. So, if your name is Shant, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.

Shant has 5 letters 
and begins with an S

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.

With five letters, the name Shant is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Shant

If your name is Shant and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Shant

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Shant, you can simply say:

Sun

Hat

Apple

Nut

Tiger

This is how the name Shant is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Shant in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Shant

Shant

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Shant

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Shant is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

S
H
A
N
T

Have you ever waved the name Shant

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

S
H
A
N
T

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Shant sounds like this: