Shaneil
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shaneil has been given to 176 babies in the U.S. since 1977. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1985, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Shaneil, 2007
1 in 500,000
Shaneil over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shaneil?
Shaneil had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2007
- 1 in 500,000
- 8 of 3,997,748 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 240,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2007
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 346,380 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shaneil sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 346,380 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaneil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shaneils were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaneil was born before 1988 — so the typical Shaneil is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 44.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 73.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 176
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 44.3% of all recorded uses (78).
Is Shaneil rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1985 (15)
- Years since peak
- 40
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.8% average annual change
Spellings of Shaneil
Shaneil is not the most common spelling — Chanel is, with 21.1% against Shaneil's 0.19%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Shaneil around the world
Where Shaneil ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2001–2005#4,798in 2005
- Canada2002–2003#2,681in 2003
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Shaneil by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shaneil
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shaneil
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.