Shanti
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘tranquillity’, usually associated with yoga or meditation
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 35 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Shanti is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 65th most common given name.
- INIndia≈1 in 760(inferred from the name graph)
- LVLatvia1 in 329as Santa
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 450as Santa
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Shanti itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #611 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 573 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 761 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Santa in MX Mexico, LV Latvia, Sandy in US United States, Shanta in BD Bangladesh and Sandi in SI Slovenia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Sanskrit: ‘tranquillity’, usually associated with yoga or meditation.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shanti counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #65 | ≈1,900,000 est. | ≈1 in 761 | 189K | Shanti | 170 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | listed | Shanti | 120 |
| BD Bangladesh | #308 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | listed | Shanta | 54 |
| US United States | — | 75,709as Sandy | 1 in 4.4K | 69K | Sandy | 573 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 200 | Santa | 109 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 448 | 16K | — | 29 |
| LV Latvia | — | 5,721as Santa | 1 in 329 | 5.7K | Santa | 73 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 2,171as Sandi | 1 in 969 | 2.2K | Sandi | 27 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); JCE — Nombres más registrados (annual); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); SURS — resident population given names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Shanti is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Sanskrit; the tranquil one.
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In German, aus Indien stammender weibl. Vom. (sanskrit. sänti »Ruhe«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Paz, tranquilidad
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In English, A call for peace, often recited three times as a prayer for peace of the soul.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagarb. 1894INIndian chemist (1894–1955)
- Shanti Devib. 1934INIndian social worker
- Shanti Mishrab. 1938NPNepali librarian, lecturer and writer (1938–2019)
- Shanti Thatalb. 1938NPmusician
- Shanti Gandhib. 1940USAmerican politician and surgeon
- Shanti Roneyb. 1970SESwedish actor
- Shanti Snyderb. 1981JPJapanese singer
- Shanti Lowryb. 1982USAmerican actress and dancer
- Shanti Pereirab. 1996SGSingaporean athletics competitor
- Shanti Devi ChaudharyNPMember of Parliament of Nepal
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)66 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 7K | #743 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.9K | #5,444 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 289 | #5,444 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 5 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2017 | 4 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 1 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shanti mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘tranquillity’, usually associated with yoga or meditation. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Shanti a male or female name?
- Shanti is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: India (India Names Dataset), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- In which country does Shanti have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 million people named Shanti in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shanti.
- How common is the name Shanti?
- In the United States, the national register counted 75,709 people named Sandy in 2020, about 1 in 4.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Shanti compared with other names?
- In India, Shanti is the 65th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shantiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shanti” — the 65th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.