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
- Peak · girls
- 1972 · 45 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,885since 1966
Shanti over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 | — | |
| 2024 | #6,167 | 19 | — | |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | — | |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | — | |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 | — | |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | — | |
| 2019 | #6,176 | 19 | — | |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 | — | |
| 2017 | #5,191 | 25 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,157 | 35 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,295 | 33 | — | |
| 2014 | #6,451 | 19 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,887 | 28 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,644 | 43 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,916 | 38 | — | |
| 2010 | #4,023 | 37 | — | |
| 2009 | #4,107 | 37 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,584 | 45 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,168 | 54 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,136 | 53 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,170 | 49 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,071 | 50 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,229 | 77 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,527 | 62 | — | |
| 2001 | #8,758 | 11 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 | — | |
| 1999 | #4,718 | 23 | — | |
| 1998 | #5,583 | 18 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,626 | 17 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,883 | 20 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,878 | 27 | — | |
| 1994 | #4,115 | 25 | — | |
| 1993 | #4,826 | 20 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,974 | 39 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #5,004 | 19 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,523 | 21 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,330 | 31 | — | |
| 1988 | #4,172 | 21 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,780 | 35 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,135 | 29 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #2,804 | 33 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,781 | 32 | #4,215 | 9 |
| 1983 | #2,721 | 32 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,532 | 37 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #2,375 | 41 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #1,863 | 58 | #3,098 | 14 |
| 1979 | #1,952 | 53 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #2,012 | 47 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #1,976 | 49 | #3,386 | 11 |
| 1976 | #2,334 | 35 | #3,471 | 10 |
| 1975 | #1,935 | 46 | #2,902 | 13 |
| 1974 | #1,881 | 46 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | #1,885 | 44 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #1,856 | 45 | #3,152 | 10 |
| 1971 | #1,937 | 44 | #2,558 | 14 |
| 1970 | #2,354 | 32 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #3,958 | 13 | — | |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 | — | |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | — | |
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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
- 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)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 1972 at #1,856 (45 births)
- Births halved by 1988, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 24.4% of all girls named Shanti (460) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 34 | #3,958 (1969) | #5,163 |
| 1970s | 441 | #1,856 (1972) | #2,012 |
| 1980s | 349 | #1,863 (1980) | #2,849 |
| 1990s | 229 | #2,974 (1992) | #4,613 |
| 2000s | 460 | #2,229 (2003) | #3,890 |
| 2010s | 293 | #3,644 (2012) | #4,984 |
| 2020s | 79 | #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.
Shanti in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
Top boys' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 33,805 of them was named Shanti, which outranked 80.8% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,832Terrell46
- #1,832Toi46
- #1,832Venita46
- #1,856Shanti45
- #1,856Anabel45
- #1,856Andrew45
- #1,856Asia45
- #1,890Alexia44
- #1,890Ammie44
- #1,890Angle44
Tied with 33 names at #1,856; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,621,608 boys got a published name in 1972; 1 in 162,161 of them was named Shanti, which outranked 45.2% of the 5,751 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,991Yechiel11
- #2,991Zeb11
- #2,991Zev11
- #3,152Shanti10
- #3,152Aden10
- #3,152Adrion10
- #3,152Aidan10
- #3,344Abran9
- #3,344Adaryll9
- #3,344Aimee9
Tied with 191 names at #3,152; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.