Given name & surname · also Sanskrit
Shanta
“one who is calm”
Shanta is used as a given name and a surname. One Hindi interpretation is “one who is calm.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hindi interpretation is “one who is calm.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Sanskrit.
How it developed
The name draws on Sanskrit santa, meaning “pacified, calm”.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1958. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shanta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5,254
- 142 boys · 5,112 girls
- Most popular year
- 1978
- 378 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 360 in 1978. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,799 as a first name in 2020; 253 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Shanta’s family of names
Shanta has a related form in Shantia. Shanta has a related form in Shantea. Shanta has a related form in Shantah.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Shanta
- Shanta ShelkeMarathi poet and writer (1922–2002)
- Shanta GandhiIndian dancer and theatre director (1917-2002)
- Shanta GhoshGerman sprinterborn 1975
- Shanta KumarIndian politicianborn 1934
- Shanta Aptesinger and actress1916–1964
- Shanta GokhaleIndian writer, translator, journalist and theatre criticborn 1939
- Shanta ChhetriIndian politicianborn 1956
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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