Given name · also Hindi
Shantanu
Shantanu is a masculine given name from Hindi, ultimately from Sanskrit.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Shantanu comes from Hindi, and ultimately from Sanskrit.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
A transliteration of Hindi शांतनु, a transliteration of Sanskrit शांतनु.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1990. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shantanu through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 69
- 69 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2002
- 9 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 boys is 5 in 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 2002. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 734 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Shantanu
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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