Shontavia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shontavia has been given to 261 babies in the U.S. since 1982. 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 24 recorded.
Babies named Shontavia, 2005
1 in 549,000
Shontavia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shontavia?
Shontavia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2005
- 1 in 549,000
- 7 of 3,844,258 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 264,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2005
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 380,664 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shontavia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 380,664 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shontavia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shontavias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shontavia was born before 1993 — so the typical Shontavia is around 32 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 62.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 261
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 62.5% of all recorded uses (163).
Is Shontavia 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 1991 (24)
- Years since peak
- 34
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 45.3% average annual change
Spellings of Shontavia
Shontavia is not the most common spelling — Shatavia is, with 44.0% against Shontavia's 15.5%.
Where Shontavia is used
Across 1910–2025, Shontavia was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 520,415 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in —
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3North Carolina1 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. Shontavia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shontavia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shontavia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shontavia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.