Shōta
Shōta, Shouta, or Shota is a common masculine Japanese given name.
Written forms
Shōta can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:- 消太, "erase, thick"
- 正太, "correct, thick"
- 翔太, "soar, thick"
- 章太, "composition, thick"
- 奨太, "reward, thick"
- 将太, "general, thick"
People with the name
- Shota Akiyoshi, Japanese golfer
- Shouta Aoi, Japanese singer, actor, and voice actor
- Shota Arai, Japanese footballer
- Shota Arai (footballer, born 1988), Japanese footballer
- Shōta Chida, Japanese shogi player
- Shota Dobayashi, Japanese baseball player
- Endō Shōta, Japanese sumo wrestler
- Shota Fujio, Japanese footballer
- Shota Haku, stage name Soul, Japanese singer, member of South Korean boy band P1Harmony
- Shota Hazui, Japanese water polo player
- Shota Horie, Japanese rugby union player
- Shota Hoshi, Japanese futsal player
- Shōta Iizuka, Japanese sprinter
- Ikioi Shōta, Japanese sumo wrestler
- Shōta Imanaga, Japanese baseball player
- Shota Inoue, Japanese footballer
- Shota Ishimine, Japanese baseball outfielder
- Shota Iwata, Japanese footballer
- Shota Kanno, Japanese footballer
- Shota Kawanishi, Japanese footballer
- Shota Kimura (baseball), Japanese baseball player
- Shota Kimura (footballer), Japanese footballer
- Shota Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
- Shota Koide, Japanese footballer
- Shota Koike, Japanese baseball catcher
- Shota Matsuda, Japanese actor
- Shota Matsuhashi, Japanese footballer
- Shota Matsushima, Japanese actor
- Shota Nakamura, Japanese speed skater
- Shota Nakazaki, Japanese baseball player
- Shota Oba, Japanese baseball pitcher
- Shota Ohno, Japanese baseball catcher
- Shota Otsuka, Japanese footballer
- Shota Rustaveli Georgian poet, author of The Knight in the Panther's Skin
- Shota Saito, Japanese footballer
- , Japanese actor
- Shota Sakaki, Japanese footballer
- Shota Sasaki, Japanese slalom canoeist
- Shota Shimizu, Japanese musician and singer-songwriter
- Shōta Sometani, Japanese actor
- Shōta Suzuki (baseball, born 1995), Japanese baseball player
- Shota Suzuki (footballer, born 1984), Japanese footballer
- Shota Suzuki (footballer, born 1996), Japanese footballer
- Shota Taguchi, Japanese actor
- Shota Takeda, Japanese baseball pitcher
- Shota Takekuma, Japanese baseball player
- Shota Umino, Japanese professional wrestler
Fictional characters
- Shōta/Sawyer, a character in the anime series Pokémon XY
- List of My Hero Academia characters#Shota Aizawa, a character in the manga series My Hero Academia
- Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 2nd Kiss#Shota Amachi, a character in the video game Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 2nd Kiss
- Shota Hikasa, a character in the film Battle Royale II: Requiem
- Shota Ohara, a main character from anime and manga series Little Ghost Q-Taro
- Kimi ni Todoke#Shota Kazehaya, a character in the manga series Kimi ni Todoke
- Shoutarou Kaneda, abbreviated "Shota", a character in the manga series Tetsujin 28-go
- Shota Magatsuchi, a character in the manga series Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
- Shota Shibata, a lead character in the 2018 movie Shoplifters
- Shōta Mitarai, a character from the game The Idolmaster 2 and ''The Idolmaster SideM''