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Shweta

Girls' name

White

Shweta has been given to 197 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 1997, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Shweta, 2013

1 in 608,000

Shweta over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shweta: meaning, origin, and history

White

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shweta means

Shweta means “white”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Shweta is used in Marathi, Hindi and Gujarati.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃʋeː.t̪aː/ for Shweta.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 197 girls were recorded with the name Shweta between 1982 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1997; its best national rank was #6,442 in 1997.

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.

How common is Shweta?

Shweta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 608,000
6 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,196 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shweta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 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 421,196 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shweta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shwetas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shweta was born before 1999 — so the typical Shweta is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
197
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 44.7% of all recorded uses (88).

Is Shweta 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1997 (15)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,442
1997

Spellings of Shweta

Shweta is not the most common spelling — Sheena is, with 32.8% against Shweta's 0.29%.

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.

Shweta around the world

Where Shweta 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 & Wales
    1997–2006
    #5,061
    in 2006
  • Canada
    1997–1998
    #2,038
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1997–1997
    #681
    in 1997

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.

Shweta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,442
1997
Peak year
1997
15 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
197
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shweta

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

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Sibling names for Shweta

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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