Name Shunta
Gender Masculine
Usage Japanese
Scripts 俊多, 俊太, 峻太, 春太, 瞬太, 竣太, 舜多, 舜太, 駿太, 旬太, 準汰, 尚多, 隼太, 隼汰, 尚太, etc.
Pronounced Pron. shuun-tah
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Meaning & History
From Japanese 俊 (shun) meaning "sagacious, genius, excellence", 峻 (shun) meaning "high, steep", 春 (shun) meaning "spring", 瞬 (shun) meaning "wink, blink, twinkle", 駿 (shun) meaning "a good horse, speed, a fast person", 旬 (shun) meaning "decameron, ten-day period", 準 (shun) meaning "semi-, correspond to, proportionate to, conform, imitate", 尚 (shun) meaning "esteem, furthermore, still, yet" or 隼 (shun) meaning "falcon" combined with 多 (ta) meaning "many, frequent, much", 太 (ta) meaning "thick, big" or 汰 (ta) meaning "washing, sieving, filtering, weeding out, luxury". Other kanji combinations are possible. A famous bearer is Shunta Wakamatsu, a professional Japanese baseball player, Shunta Gotoh, a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Orix Buffaloes in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball, Shunta Nagai, a former Japanese football player and Shunta Shimura, a Japanese football player.