Last name Shants (Shants 
, Шанц 
) , in the entire world, is a rare surname. The family name Shants is characteristic of Kazakhstan, where it is a rare surname, Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia, where it is a very rare surname. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. Very seldom, Shants is the forename as well as the last name.