Shantavia is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Shantavia 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 Shantavia. That means that a girl named Shantavia 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 Shantavia.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Shantavia in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 276 women and girls named Shantavia, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 276 women and girls named Shantavia live in no more than 7 different states, including for example Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and New York. In all other 42 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Shantavia. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Shantavia lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Shantavia and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Shantavia relative to its female population is Florida. And even there, only one in 33,403 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Shantavia.
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 nine letters, the name Shantavia is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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 Shantavia 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 Shantavia, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Apple
Nut
Tiger
Apple
Violin
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shantavia
Shantavia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
A
N
T
A
V
I
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
V
I
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. Shantavia sounds like this:
