Shantora
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shantora has been given to 7 babies in the U.S. since 1991. 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 1991, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Shantora, 1991
1 in 556,000
Shantora 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shantora?
Shantora had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1991
- 1 in 556,000
- 7 of 3,892,928 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1991
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 385,483 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shantora sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1991 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 385,483 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shantora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shantoras were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shantora was born before 1991 — so the typical Shantora is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 7
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (7).
Is Shantora 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
- —
- 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 1991 (7)
- Years since peak
- 34
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Shantora
Shantora is not the most common spelling — Shanta is, with 40.1% against Shantora's 0.05%.
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.
Shantora by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shantora
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shantora
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.