Shaterra
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shaterra has been given to 291 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 1992, with 26 recorded.
Babies named Shaterra, 2006
1 in 565,000
Shaterra 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shaterra?
Shaterra had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2006
- 1 in 565,000
- 7 of 3,956,166 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 272,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2006
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,745 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shaterra sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,745 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaterra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shaterras were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaterra was born before 1992 — so the typical Shaterra is around 33 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 57.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 291
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 57.0% of all recorded uses (166).
Is Shaterra 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 1992 (26)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.8% average annual change
Spellings of Shaterra
Shaterra is not the most common spelling — Shatara is, with 23.7% against Shaterra's 4.7%.
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 Shaterra is used
Across 1910–2025, Shaterra was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,176,438 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Texas1 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. Shaterra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shaterra by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shaterra
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shaterra
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.