Shanti

#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births · Last seen for boys in 1992 at #8,435
Given to girls 93.1% of the time

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Peak · girls
1972 · 45 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,885
since 1966

Shanti over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #1,856, 1972peak #2,558, 1971girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#8,86011
2024#6,16719
2023#9,61610
2022#7,63114
2021#7,25015
2020#9,54610
2019#6,17619
2018#7,10016
2017#5,19125
2016#4,15735
2015#4,29533
2014#6,45119
2013#4,88728
2012#3,64443
2011#3,91638
2010#4,02337
2009#4,10737
2008#3,58445
2007#3,16854
2006#3,13653
2005#3,17049
2004#3,07150
2003#2,22977
2002#2,52762
2001#8,75811
2000#5,15122
1999#4,71823
1998#5,58318
1997#5,62617
1996#4,88320
1995#3,87827
1994#4,11525
1993#4,82620
1992#2,97439#8,4355
1991#5,00419
1990#4,52321
1989#3,33031
1988#4,17221
1987#2,78035
1986#3,13529#6,7215
1985#2,80433
1984#2,78132#4,2159
1983#2,72132
1982#2,53237#4,2349
1981#2,37541#6,2625
1980#1,86358#3,09814
1979#1,95253#5,3556
1978#2,01247#4,1578
1977#1,97649#3,38611
1976#2,33435#3,47110
1975#1,93546#2,90213
1974#1,88146#5,2275
1973#1,88544#3,01311
1972#1,85645#3,15210
1971#1,93744#2,55814
1970#2,35432#4,7245
1969#3,95813
1968#5,1478
1967#4,9828
1966#6,5645
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First appearance
1966

The first year at least five girls were named Shanti! It came in at #6,564, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1966, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Shanti
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 2,693 spots since 2024 (#6,167#8,860)
  • 686 spots since 2020 (#9,546#8,860)
  • 4,565 spots since 2015 (#4,295#8,860)
Rise & fade · girls
6 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1966
  • Peaked 1972 at #1,856 (45 births)
  • Births halved by 1988, 16 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 23,729
  • Highest: 1 in 23,729 girls born in 2003 were named Shanti (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,856 in 1972, was only 1 in 33,805 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 24.4% of all girls named Shanti (460) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s34#3,958 (1969)#5,163
1970s441#1,856 (1972)#2,012
1980s349#1,863 (1980)#2,849
1990s229#2,974 (1992)#4,613
2000s460#2,229 (2003)#3,890
2010s293#3,644 (2012)#4,984
2020s79#6,167 (2024)#8,178

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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