Shantell
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shantell has been given to 5,106 babies in the U.S. since 1963. 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 1987, with 196 recorded.
Babies named Shantell, 2021
1 in 377,000
Shantell 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shantell?
Shantell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 377,000
- 9 of 3,389,958 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 182,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 261,083 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shantell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 261,083 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shantell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shantells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shantell was born before 1986 — so the typical Shantell is around 39 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 33.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 16.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 5,080
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 33.2% of all recorded uses (1,689).
Is Shantell 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 1987 (196)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.8% average annual change
Spellings of Shantell
Shantell is not the most common spelling — Chantel is, with 20.3% against Shantell's 6.9%.
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 Shantell is used
Across 1910–2025, Shantell was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 49,230 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 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. Shantell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shantell around the world
Where Shantell 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 & Wales1996–2005#2,682in 2005
- Canada1991–1996#2,558in 1996
- South Australia1969–2009#818in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shantell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Shantell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Shantell
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shantell, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Shantell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.