Shatavia
Feminine
Shatavia joins a free front syllable to an ending borrowed from Latin. That ending belongs to a family of Roman names that are, quite literally, numbers.
How old is the name Shatavia?
Shatavia first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Shatavia alive today was born around 1994, making them about 31 years old. About 700 people named Shatavia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shatavia most popular?
Shatavia peaked in 1987, reaching #2531 nationally. See the whole 1987 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Shatavia
Roman parents ran out of enthusiasm for inventing names and started counting. Quintus is the fifth, Sextus the sixth, Septimus the seventh, Octavius the eighth, Decimus the tenth. These were ordinary names carried by consuls and emperors, and the first emperor was an Octavius. Roman daughters had it worse: many families simply used the feminine of the family name for every girl, so all the daughters of the Julii were Julia, distinguished when necessary as the elder, the younger and the third. It is an approach to naming that treats the individual as a position in a series, and it produced some of the most famous names in European history.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The ending resembles the Roman Octavia, which is a number. The front is a free syllable American naming attached widely, and nothing documents this particular pairing.
Pronouncing Shatavia
shuh-TAY-vee-uh
Four syllables with the weight on the second. The first is light enough to disappear in quick speech.
Nicknames for Shatavia
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
- 1977
- Most girls named
- 199345 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2531reached in 1987
- Change vs 2011
- +20.0%6 in 2014, 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.
Shatavias among us
people named Shatavia 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
Shatavia 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
- Tavia and Shay are both available as short forms and both work on their own.
- Four open syllables carry well and are easy to hear across a room.
- The stress falls where an English reader expects, so first attempts land correctly.
- Shatavia, Shatavious and Shantavia are all in the record and will be confused with each other.
- Four syllables is a lot for an American form, and it will be shortened by other people first.
- No origin is documented, so the meaning question has nothing to answer with.
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Frequently asked
- How many Shatavias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Shatavia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Shatavia in 2025?
- Shatavia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Shatavia with classmates?
- Shatavia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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