Shantay
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shantay has been given to 1,271 babies in the U.S. since 1961. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1987, with 72 recorded.
Babies named Shantay, 2011
1 in 732,000
Shantay over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shantay?
Shantay had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2011
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,657,935 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 352,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2011
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,099 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shantay sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shantay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shantays were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shantay was born before 1984 — so the typical Shantay is around 41 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 41.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 40.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,271
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 41.5% of all recorded uses (528).
Is Shantay rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1987 (72)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.5% average annual change
Spellings of Shantay
Shantay is not the most common spelling — Shana is, with 17.8% against Shantay's 0.76%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Shantay is used
Across 1910–2025, Shantay was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 355,046 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 2New York1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in —
- 4Florida1 in —
- 5Georgia1 in —
- 6Illinois1 in —
- 7Maryland1 in —
- 8Michigan1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Shantay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shantay around the world
Where Shantay ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2014#5,691in 2014
- Canada2002–2002#2,580in 2002
- South Australia1999–2009#818in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shantay by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shantay
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shantay
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.