Shanta

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Shanta is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 42nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Kiswahili: 'knapsack'.

rarermore common
  • SVEl Salvador1 in 17◐
  • HNHonduras1 in 17
  • BOBolivia1 in 20

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈119K ●

across 8 countries

#389 ●

of 16M given names

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
519 ●

3.9M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 329 ◐

Latvia

Spellings & scripts●

SantaLatin · Spanish●3.8M records
סנדיHebrew · Hebrew●3.1K records
СандиCyrillic · Russian●536 records
ชานิตThai · Thai●52 records
ΣανταGreek · Greek●3 records
산타Hangul · Korean●2 records
සාන්තSinhala · Sinhala●0 records

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Santa in SV El Salvador, PE Peru, ES Spain and 9 more, Sandy in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 8 more, Shanti in IN India, MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia and סנדי in FR France, IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Kiswahili: 'knapsack'

Sources 1

  • African Names

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Shanta is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#424,763,7191.9M rec.—189KShanti158
SV El Salvador—1,155,0781.9K rec.——Santa12
PE Peru—629,280150K rec.——Santa58
PY Paraguay—337,5187.4K rec.——Santa18
BO Bolivia—325,9661.7K rec.——Santa24
MX Mexico—318,49090K rec.—200Santa107
AR Argentina—198,015124K rec.—18KSanta72
GT Guatemala—187,9443.4K rec.——Santa21
HN Honduras—168,0523.3K rec.——Santa12
CO Colombia—111,1346K rec.——Santa95
US United States#37969,1541.2M rec.1 in 4.8K69KSandy519
GB United Kingdom#46152,85155K rec.—4Sandy194

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi263K67%
  • English69K18%
  • 13K3%
  • Vietnamese7.7K2%
  • Bangla6.8K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi263,23967%
English69,39718%
13,3853%
Vietnamese7,6972%
Bangla6,8242%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Shanta is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name14K records spelled Shanta3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Shānta, Shântâ

  • Spanish given name5.0K records spelled Shanta9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, France, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Shanta', Shantá, Șhäñțä, Shāntā, Shantã

  • Thai given name1.9K records spelled Shanta3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Thailand, United Kingdom

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Shanta'

  • Ukrainian surname570 records spelled Shanta2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia

    Also written Шанта

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Shanta is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • the daughter of King

    as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India

  • Significado: Pájaro

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Swahili, rucksack, knapsack

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05001K1.5K192019401960198020001.4K · 1967

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Shanta in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1913–2017
Yearrecords
19131
19142
19151
19161
19173
19181
19192
19205
19217
192217
192310
192414
192514
192630
192761
192836
192968
193057
1931112
1932168
1933133
1934147
1935176
1936251
1937351
1938303
1939327
1940343
1941502
1942565
1943485
1944477
1945623
1946737
1947941
1948690
1949771
1950807
1951943
19521,138
19531,023
1954871
19551,005
19561,211
19571,354
19581,119
19591,217
19601,086
19611,372
19621,363
19631,329
1964981
19651,311
19661,348
19671,439
19681,161
19691,324
19701,048
19711,266
19721,179
19731,143
1974941
1975946
19761,004
1977958
1978979
19791,005
1980853
1981919
1982958
19831,055
1984812
1985838
1986805
1987864
1988767
1989720
1990663
1991660
1992668
1993732
1994725
1995449
1996298
1997239
1998176
199911
20011
20074
200814
20091
201025
201115
201218
201344
201419
20159
20161
20172

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 99 years between 1913–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Santa Chattopadhyay, b. 1893Shanta Apte, b. 1916Shanta Gandhi, b. 1917Shanta Shelke, b. 1922Shanta Kumar, b. 1934Shanta Gokhale, b. 1939Shanta Chhetri, b. 1956Shanta Ghosh, b. 1975Kizzmekia Corbett, b. 1986Lady, b. 1989

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 33 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Shanta
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.7K#4,039
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—4.1K#1,047
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19671.4K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19611.4K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19621.4K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19571.4K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19661.3K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19631.3K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19691.3K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19651.3K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19711.3K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19591.2K—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 316 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Shanta?
We estimate roughly 119 thousand people bear Shanta (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Shanta have the most bearers?
Shanta is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled shanti.
How common is Shanta compared with other names?
In India, Shanta is the 42nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Shanta a male or female name?
Shanta is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Shanta mean?
Recorded meaning: Kiswahili: 'knapsack'
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shanta” — the 42nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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