Shanta is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Recently, the name Shanta 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 girl in 100,000 has been named Shanta. That means that a girl named Shanta is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her 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 Shanta.
Is the name Shanta a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1978, when it ranked #485 with 377 newborn girls receiving this special first name. In times of emerging digitalization, it thus experienced its last peak. Since Shanta is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always come up with the idea of giving their daughter this unusual name. So, if your name is Shanta, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, you stand out with your name these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Shanta was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Shanta born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn girls with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Shanta born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Shanta are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Shanta in 24 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Shanta live in Mississippi – here, one in 8,671 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 40,830 will turn around if you call her first name Shanta.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Shanta is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Shanta 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Shanta, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Apple
Nut
Tiger
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shanta
Shanta
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
A
N
T
A
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
A
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. Shanta sounds like this:
