Shakta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: adherent of Shaktlsm (Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Shakta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 24Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24M (inferred from the name graph)
≈14 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)adherent of Shaktlsm
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where the surname Shakta is found
(measured from records)Shakta counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 24M | — | Shakta | 3 |
| IN India | — | — | 1 | Shakta | 10 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shakta mean, and where does it come from?
- adherent of Shaktlsm Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Shakta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 people named Shakta in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shakta.
- How common is the name Shakta?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 people in the United States have Shakta as their first surname, about 1 in 24 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shaktaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shakta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.