Shanta

Where Shanta comes from

Shanta hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1917
    Shanta Gandhi born
    Indian dancer and theatre director
  2. 1922
    Shanta Shelke born
    Marathi poet and writer
  3. 1958
    First appearance
    #6,103 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1978
    Peak, #517
    360 babies named Shanta — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1983
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #869.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Shanta Shelke · Marathi poet and writer, 1922–2002
  • Shanta Gandhi · Indian dancer and theatre director, 1917–2002
  • Shanta Ghosh · German sprinter, born 1975
  • Shanta Kumar · Indian politician, born 1934
  • Shanta Gokhale · Indian writer, translator, journalist and theatre critic, born 1939

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.