Shannelle
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shannelle has been given to 190 babies in the U.S. since 1978. 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 1984, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Shannelle, 2013
1 in 608,000
Shannelle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shannelle?
Shannelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2013
- 1 in 608,000
- 6 of 3,645,938 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 292,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2013
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 421,196 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shannelle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 421,196 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shannelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shannelles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shannelle was born before 1991 — so the typical Shannelle is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 35.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 61.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 190
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (67).
Is Shannelle 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1984 (13)
- Years since peak
- 41
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.4% average annual change
Spellings of Shannelle
Shannelle is not the most common spelling — Chantelle is, with 19.3% against Shannelle's 0.55%.
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.
Shannelle around the world
Where Shannelle 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 & Wales1997–2011#5,785in 2011
- France2018–2018#6,308in 2018
- Canada1993–1993#1,917in 1993
- South Australia1979–2008#796in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shannelle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shannelle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shannelle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.