Shantal
#7,841 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shantal has been given to 1,685 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #7,841 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 70 recorded.
Babies named Shantal, 2025
1 in 237,000
Shantal 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shantal?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 115,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,841
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shantal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shantal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shantals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shantal was born before 1998 — so the typical Shantal is around 27 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 30.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 43.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,685
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (509).
Is Shantal 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
- −952
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,201
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,418
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.70×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 20.0%
- Peak was 1990 (70)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.7% average annual change
Spellings of Shantal
Shantal is not the most common spelling — Shana is, with 15.4% against Shantal's 0.88%.
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.
Where Shantal is used
Across 1910–2025, Shantal was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 118,051 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 50,000
- 2Florida1 in 100,000
- 3New Mexico1 in 100,000
- 4New York1 in 100,000
- 5Texas1 in 100,000
- 6Arizona1 in —
- 7Illinois1 in —
- 8Louisiana1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Shantal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shantal around the world
Where Shantal 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.
- Canada1991–2001#1,839in 2001
- South Australia1987–2007#803in 2007
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shantal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shantal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shantal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.