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Shubhdeep vs Shunta

American parents have registered 761 Shuntas since 1880, against 30 Shubhdeeps. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Shubhdeep against Shunta, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Shubhdeep Shunta

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 35 years in which either name was published, Shunta for 33 years and Shubhdeep for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Shubhdeep Shunta
Total US births 30761
Most in one year 1978
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 30730
Median age today 245
Peak year 20231979
Best rank 5,075th boys1,605th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 20231965
Girls / boys 0 / 30732 / 29

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Shuntas alive today are over 45; half the Shubhdeeps are over 2. That is 43 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Shubhdeep and Shunta.