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Shantelle

Girls' name

Variant of Chantel

Shantelle has been given to 2,680 babies in the U.S. since 1964. 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 124 recorded.

Babies named Shantelle, 2019

1 in 347,000

Shantelle over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shantelle: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Chantel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shantelle means

Shantelle is a variant of Chantel.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Shantelle is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʃɑn.ˈtɛl/ for Shantelle.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Shantelle → Chantel → Chantal. The family’s meaning is “stone, moellon, rubblestone”, recorded in English with the source elements cantal.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Chantel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,680 girls were recorded with the name Shantelle between 1964 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 124 in 1987; its best national rank was #1,181 in 1987.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Shantelle?

Shantelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 347,000
10 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 168,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
240,678 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shantelle sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 240,678 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shantelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shantelles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shantelle was born before 1987 — so the typical Shantelle is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
34.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,680
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 34.0% of all recorded uses (911).

Is Shantelle 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1987 (124)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,181
1987

Spellings of Shantelle

Shantelle is not the most common spelling — Shantel is, with 22.6% against Shantelle's 5.9%.

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 Shantelle is used

Across 1910–2025, Shantelle was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 123,718 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 16,667
  2. 2Hawaii1 in 20,000
  3. 3Utah1 in 25,000
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 33,333
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Maryland1 in 100,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 100,000

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. Shantelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shantelle around the world

Where Shantelle 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 & Wales
    1996–2018
    #5,666
    in 2018
  • Scotland
    1997–2012
    #815
    in 2012
  • Northern Ireland
    2000–2001
    #343
    in 2001
  • Ireland
    1996–2009
    #893
    in 2009
  • Canada
    1991–2013
    #3,199
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1975–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Shantelle by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,181
1987
Peak year
1987
124 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
2,680
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shantelle

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ShanelleShaquilleSharelleShannelleShawnelleShawntelleShauntelleShandelleShaniyahShaylynnSharlotteSharnelleShaelynnShayleighShanielleShavelleShaquelleMarybelleShaindyShanayaSharmaineShayleneShaylynMirabelle

Names with a curve like Shantelle

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shantelle, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AlishiaAleshiaAricaRosioLakiaNakitaTalishaTaishaMieshaShalaTieshaErinn

Sibling names for Shantelle

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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