Shota

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Шота in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, ZW Zimbabwe and 3 more, โสตะ in TH Thailand, Shida in IN India and Sota in LA Laos.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Shota is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name401 records spelled Shota2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States

  Also written Shōta

• Hebrew given name57 records spelled Shota6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Israel, Georgia, United States, Latvia

  Also written שוטה, שותא, Schutte, Shote, SchÜtte

32 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●

Shota is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, A male given name of Georgian origin.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Filipino, alternative spelling of siyota

  as a word·kaikki.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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 33 years between 1988–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Shota Rustavelib. 1172GEGeorgian poet
• Shota Chochishvilib. 1950GEGeorgian professional wrestler and judoka (1950–2009)
• Shōta Asukab. 1971JPJapanese novelist
• Shota Arveladzeb. 1973GEGeorgian association football player and manager (born 1973)
• Shota Yasudab. 1984JPJapanese musician, singer and actor
• Shōta Matsudab. 1985JPJapanese actor
• Shōta Maseb. 1986JPJapanese actor
• Shota Shimizub. 1989JPJapanese singer
• Shōta Sometanib. 1992JPJapanese actor
• Shōta Imanagab. 1993JPJapanese baseball player

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 152 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Shota?

We estimate roughly 16 thousand people bear Shota (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Shota have the most bearers?

Shota is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled shota.

Where is Shota most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shota is densest in Georgia — about 1 in 277 people — even though Japan holds more of our records for it.

How common is Shota compared with other names?

In Japan, Shota is the 121st most common given name of 355,102 given names recorded there.

Is Shota a male or female name?

Shota is a male 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.