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Meaning

The name Shanta has the following meaning:

Pacified. Also means "calm".
It is a female name, suitable for baby girls.

Popularity

As a baby girl name, Shanta is currently not a popular baby name in the USA.

The following chart shows the popularity of the name Shanta in the USA, over the past 100 years.
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Pronunciation

The name Shanta is pronounced as shahn-tah

Origins

Shanta originates from the Hindi language.
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Related names

The following names are baby names related to Shanta and are suitable names for brothers and sisters of Shanta: Boys - Amit, Arnav, Aryan, Daivat, Dandin, Dattatreya, Dayanand, Deval, Dinesh, Durjaya, Nabarun, Girls - Aja, Daru, Deva, Devaki, Devi, Loma, Nandini, Natesa, Niloufer, Nisha, Nitara, Both genders - Bailee, Barbara, Cecil, Clifford, Clyde, Edith

Variants

Popular Variants for the name Shanta: Shantah, Shantea, Shantia, Shantiya, Shantta

Style

We think the name Shanta should fall under the following style category: Little Darlings.

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Impression

Based on our research, most people would imagine a person with the name Shanta to be: A pretty and intellectual lady

In one word, you might describe Shanta as a(n) "intelligent" person.

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Famous persons

The names of some famous persons by the name Shanta (or its variants) are:

Shanta Kumar, born on 12 September, a famous minister. Shanta Kumar's background: A former chief minister of Himachal Pradesh and a former minister in Government of India. He is a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party and was elected to Lok Sabha from Kangra.He has written some books. Shanta Kumar is a BJP veteran who was born and bred in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ideology. He was hardly 17 when in 1953 he was arrested during Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s Kashmir Andolan. With a political career spanning more than five decades, he was one of the founder- members of Bharatiya Jana Sangh and member of its National Working Committee. In 1977 he became the first-ever non-Congress Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh. Presently, he is the National Vice-President of Bharatiya Janata Party. His first tenure as chief minister is remembered as paaniwala Mukhya Mantri, and for innovative Antyodaya Yojna, and fighting for Himachal’s rights which had been ignored at the time of reorganization of Punjab.

Shanta Janardan Shelke, born on 19 October, a famous writer. Shanta Janardan Shelke's background: A gifted Marathi poetess and writer. Apart from this she has been a journalist, a professor, composer, story writer, translator, written child literature, presided over literature gatherings and more. Some of her compositions became immortal as either stand-alone poetic works or as songs sung by marathi greats like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosale and Kishori Amonkar, to name a few.
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