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Shantavia

Gender
Girl
Say it
shan-TAY-vee-a
Origin
Modern

Shantavia is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Shantavia come from?

Modern: modern American coinage, Shan- + Tavia

Is Shantavia a girl's or a boy's name?

Shantavia is a girls' name.

How popular is Shantavia in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1992, with 53 girls. It first appears in the records in 1977.

Half of all the girls named Shantavia in the US since 1880 were born between 1988 and 1997, the years shaded on the chart below.

1977Busiest: 53 in 19922009
Shantavia in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20095#17,288
200811#10,080
20078#12,671
20067#13,601
20059#10,915
20048#11,617
200310#9,666
20027#12,181
200120#5,565
200028#4,286
199915#6,478
199831#3,727
199730#3,713
199626#4,054
199531#3,487
199438#3,033
199343#2,763
199253#2,428
199133#3,295
199042#2,732
198945#2,522
198826#3,580
198724#3,621
198631#2,972
198527#3,245
198418#4,165
198317#4,285
198210#6,369
19810–
198010#6,318
19790–
19788#6,946
19778#6,890

Names like Shantavia

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Shantavia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/shantavia, updated 20 October 2026.