Shatara
Feminine
Shatara joins a productive American front to a syllable that is a real name in at least three unrelated places. Tara is the ceremonial hill of the Irish kings, a Sanskrit word for a star and a Buddhist figure, and the plantation in a very famous American novel. None of them is the source here, and the sound is doing all the work.
How old is the name Shatara?
Shatara first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Shatara alive today was born around 1989, making them about 36 years old. About 1,400 people named Shatara are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shatara most popular?
Shatara peaked in 1986, reaching #987 nationally. See the whole 1986 chart.
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Where it comes from
From A productive American front syllable to Shatara
Our story of Shatara
The Irish hill is worth the detour. It is a low ridge in County Meath with earthworks on it going back to the Neolithic, and it functioned for centuries as the ceremonial center of Irish kingship: a place where a king was made rather than where he lived. A standing stone on it was said to cry out when the rightful king touched it, which is the kind of claim that survives precisely because it cannot be tested. The site was excavated in the nineteen hundreds by a group who believed the Ark of the Covenant was buried there, and they did considerable damage before being stopped. None of this has anything to do with the name on the certificate, which was assembled in America from pieces that were fashionable at the time, and saying so is more useful than borrowing somebody else's hill.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No language supplies a source for the combination. The front is a piece of American name-building and the back is a syllable that resembles several real names without descending from any of them. Reference works offering an Irish or Sanskrit derivation are reading the resemblance. The accurate description is a made name whose components were both in wide circulation.
How the name formed
- A productive American front syllable
- A back syllable resembling several unrelated names
- Shatara and Shatarra in the registers
- The family receding across one generation
Pronouncing Shatara
shuh-TAR-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle and a broad a in it. Some families put the stress on the last syllable instead, which the spelling does not rule out and which produces a noticeably different name.
Nicknames for Shatara
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1971
- Most girls named
- 1986159 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #987reached in 1986
- Change vs 2009
- 0.0%5 in 2011, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Shataras among us
people named Shatara are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Shatara sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The sound is transparent and easy for speakers of almost any language.
- Tara is available inside it as a complete and internationally recognizable name.
- The rhythm is even and carries well when said in full.
- There is no meaning to give, and three tempting ones belong to other names.
- The stress is not fixed by the spelling and strangers will guess.
- It is firmly of one stretch of American naming.
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Frequently asked
- How many Shataras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Shatara are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Shatara in 2025?
- Shatara is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Shatara with classmates?
- Shatara will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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