Shantel
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · Last seen for boys in 1993 at #8,700
Given to girls 99.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1990 · 486 births
- Debut · girls
- 11 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,260since 1963
Shantel over time
Rank among girls' names. Shantel has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | — | |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | — | |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 | — | |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | — | |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 | — | |
| 2019 | #6,176 | 19 | — | |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 | — | |
| 2017 | #5,517 | 23 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,850 | 28 | — | |
| 2015 | #6,452 | 19 | — | |
| 2014 | #6,207 | 20 | — | |
| 2013 | #5,013 | 27 | — | |
| 2012 | #4,836 | 29 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,999 | 37 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,075 | 54 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,705 | 67 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,158 | 53 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,647 | 69 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,287 | 83 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,140 | 86 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,135 | 84 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,509 | 129 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,456 | 131 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,620 | 113 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,231 | 161 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,133 | 173 | — | |
| 1998 | #981 | 206 | — | |
| 1997 | #861 | 237 | — | |
| 1996 | #577 | 398 | — | |
| 1995 | #642 | 337 | — | |
| 1994 | #618 | 358 | — | |
| 1993 | #584 | 402 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #537 | 439 | — | |
| 1991 | #531 | 439 | — | |
| 1990 | #499 | 486 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #512 | 457 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #539 | 404 | — | |
| 1987 | #506 | 419 | — | |
| 1986 | #559 | 359 | — | |
| 1985 | #571 | 342 | — | |
| 1984 | #595 | 302 | — | |
| 1983 | #692 | 245 | — | |
| 1982 | #686 | 255 | — | |
| 1981 | #735 | 224 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #757 | 219 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #682 | 251 | — | |
| 1978 | #731 | 214 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #740 | 207 | — | |
| 1976 | #723 | 202 | — | |
| 1975 | #754 | 189 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #741 | 192 | #3,558 | 9 |
| 1973 | #725 | 196 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #712 | 201 | — | |
| 1971 | #822 | 169 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,042 | 118 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,059 | 107 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,056 | 99 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,212 | 29 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,249 | 28 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,938 | 18 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,825 | 20 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,019 | 11 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shantel! It came in at #4,019, and was given to 11 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2021–2025, when fewer than 13 girls a year got the name.
Where Shantel is popular in 1986
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#91 · 1 in 375
- Utah#190 · 1 in 931
- Colorado#255 · 1 in 1,455
- Maryland#268 · 1 in 1,752
- Iowa#290 · 1 in 1,994
Best ever in a state: #68 in Hawaii, 1983.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #91 | 13 | 1 in 375 |
| Utah | #190 | 15 | 1 in 931 |
| Colorado | #255 | 15 | 1 in 1,455 |
| Maryland | #268 | 14 | 1 in 1,752 |
| Iowa | #290 | 8 | 1 in 1,994 |
| Louisiana | #322 | 15 | 1 in 1,880 |
| New Mexico | #324 | 6 | 1 in 1,579 |
| Florida | #328 | 30 | 1 in 2,214 |
| Michigan | #342 | 23 | 1 in 2,458 |
| New York | #437 | 37 | 1 in 2,932 |
| Massachusetts | #450 | 9 | 1 in 3,900 |
| Ohio | #508 | 15 | 1 in 4,529 |
| Arizona | #517 | 7 | 1 in 3,346 |
| Washington | #541 | 7 | 1 in 3,886 |
| Virginia | #606 | 6 | 1 in 5,622 |
| Illinois | #622 | 14 | 1 in 5,067 |
| Pennsylvania | #633 | 11 | 1 in 6,248 |
| Texas | #735 | 21 | 1 in 6,270 |
| New Jersey | #739 | 6 | 1 in 6,999 |
| California | #750 | 33 | 1 in 6,294 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Shantel
- 205 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #10,917)
- 3,358 spots since 2020 (#7,559 → #10,917)
- 4,465 spots since 2015 (#6,452 → #10,917)
- Biggest jump: 220 spots in 1971 (#1,042 → #822)
- Biggest drop: 284 spots in 1997 (#577 → #861)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 1990 at #499 (486 births)
- Births halved by 1997, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 1971–1998
- Highest: 1 in 3,906 girls born in 1990 were named Shantel (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.9% of all girls named Shantel (3,475) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 312 | #1,056 (1968) | #2,337 |
| 1970s | 1,939 | #682 (1979) | #767 |
| 1980s | 3,226 | #506 (1987) | #615 |
| 1990s | 3,475 | #499 (1990) | #696 |
| 2000s | 976 | #1,231 (2000) | #2,089 |
| 2010s | 271 | #3,075 (2010) | #5,353 |
| 2020s | 61 | #7,559 (2020) | #9,676 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shantel in 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
More about 1986
girls
1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 4,779 of them was named Shantel, which outranked 95.6% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).