Shawntel
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shawntel has been given to 1,152 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 1995, with 63 recorded.
Babies named Shawntel, 2011
1 in 523,000
Shawntel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shawntel?
Shawntel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2011
- 1 in 523,000
- 7 of 3,657,935 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 251,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2011
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 362,214 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shawntel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 362,214 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shawntel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shawntels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shawntel was born before 1985 — so the typical Shawntel is around 40 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 32.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 45.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,135
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 32.6% of all recorded uses (370).
Is Shawntel 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 1995 (63)
- Years since peak
- 30
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.5% average annual change
Spellings of Shawntel
Shawntel is not the most common spelling — Chantel is, with 26.2% against Shawntel's 2.0%.
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 Shawntel is used
Across 1910–2025, Shawntel was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 539,093 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Mexico1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Louisiana1 in —
- 5Michigan1 in —
- 6New York1 in —
- 7Ohio1 in —
- 8Pennsylvania1 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. Shawntel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shawntel around the world
Where Shawntel 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.
- Canada1991–1995#2,277in 1995
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Shawntel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Shawntel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shawntel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.