Meaning not yet researched.
Shanti: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,880 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,880 in 1980; #9,373 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shanti in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,373 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #1,880.
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Shanti: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,880 in 1980 · most girls in one year: 77 (2003).
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Shanti, making it the 9,373rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,009 places from #6,364 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 19 girls named Shanti in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,880, reached in 1980. The most girls given the name in a single year was 77, in 2003. For comparison, it was #4,396 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shanti in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 5 babies. In all, 2,025 US babies have been given the name, 93% of them girls and 6.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 534 babies named Shanti.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 174 US girls were named Shanti; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shantia (1,088 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Shantee, Shauntia and Shantea are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shantee (489), Shauntia (273), Shantea (215), Shanty (193), Shaunti (50), Shanthi (44), Shantey (37), Shantie (5), Shantih (5), Shantya (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Shanti in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,373 | — | — |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,364 | — | — |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,213 | — | — |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,971 | — | — |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,583 | — | — |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,161 | — | — |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,383 | — | — |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,368 | — | — |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,318 | — | — |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,231 | — | — |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,396 | — | — |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,668 | — | — |
| 2013 | 28 | #5,003 | — | — |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,700 | — | — |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,990 | — | — |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,099 | — | — |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,179 | — | — |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,639 | — | — |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,206 | — | — |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,170 | — | — |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,205 | — | — |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,120 | — | — |
| 2003 | 77 | #2,241 | — | — |
| 2002 | 62 | #2,549 | — | — |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,264 | — | — |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,287 | — | — |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,842 | — | — |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,764 | — | — |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,827 | — | — |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,028 | — | — |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,956 | — | — |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,219 | — | — |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,964 | — | — |
| 1992 | 39 | #3,024 | 5 | #9,590 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,147 | — | — |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,664 | — | — |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,385 | — | — |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,285 | — | — |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,842 | — | — |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,189 | 5 | #7,654 |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,850 | — | — |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,833 | 9 | #4,496 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,771 | — | — |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,572 | 9 | #4,533 |
| 1981 | 41 | #2,401 | 5 | #7,112 |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,880 | 14 | #3,227 |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,972 | 6 | #5,940 |
| 1978 | 47 | #2,044 | 8 | #4,497 |
| 1977 | 49 | #1,999 | 11 | #3,573 |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,374 | 10 | #3,679 |
| 1975 | 46 | #1,956 | 13 | #3,053 |
| 1974 | 46 | #1,906 | 5 | #5,885 |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,908 | 11 | #3,182 |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,882 | 10 | #3,310 |
| 1971 | 44 | #1,961 | 14 | #2,665 |
| 1970 | 32 | #2,388 | 5 | #5,327 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,142 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,553 | — | — |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,363 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,426 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).