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Shota

#13,596 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Shota has been given to 317 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #13,596 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Shota, 2025

1 in 663,000

Shota over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shota: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shota means

Shota has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Shota

An additional editorial entry explicitly leaves the meaning of Shota uncertain. That qualification belongs to its own naming route, even when another tradition using the same spelling has a known translation. The spelling alone cannot decide which history a family intends.

A separate documented entry treats Shota as a alternate transcription of Kanji. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Shota is used in English and Spanish.

Shota comes through Georgian შოთა.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 317 boys were recorded with the name Shota between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1993; its best national rank was #4,181 in 1993.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,618 in 2015 to #13,596 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Shota?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,596
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shota sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shota. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shotas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shota was born before 2004 — so the typical Shota is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
36.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
317
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (117).

Is Shota 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
+332
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,978
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.3%
Peak was 1993 (15)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,181
1993

Spellings of Shota

Shota is not the most common spelling — Scott is, with 95.5% against Shota's 0.04%.

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 Shota is used

Across 1910–2025, Shota was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,230,262 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Shota has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shota around the world

Where Shota 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.

  • France
    2014–2014
    #5,586
    in 2014

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Shota by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,596
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,181
1993
Peak year
1993
15 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
317
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Shota

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Shota

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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