Shantell
Last seen for girls in 2021 at #10,292 · Last seen for boys in 1988 at #7,270
Given to girls 99.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1984 · 186 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,080since 1963
Shantell over time
Rank among girls' names. Shantell has never cracked the top 800 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 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | — | |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | — | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | — | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | — | |
| 2017 | — | — | ||
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 | — | |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 | — | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | — | |
| 2013 | #10,235 | 10 | — | |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | — | |
| 2011 | #5,207 | 26 | — | |
| 2010 | #6,182 | 21 | — | |
| 2009 | #6,317 | 21 | — | |
| 2008 | #4,647 | 32 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,176 | 52 | — | |
| 2005 | #4,029 | 35 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,631 | 40 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,232 | 45 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,673 | 57 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,700 | 55 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,900 | 89 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,786 | 89 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,830 | 84 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,671 | 94 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,431 | 115 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,294 | 129 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,224 | 143 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,243 | 139 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,042 | 177 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,024 | 180 | — | |
| 1990 | #993 | 185 | — | |
| 1989 | #933 | 192 | — | |
| 1988 | #921 | 184 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #866 | 196 | — | |
| 1986 | #915 | 176 | — | |
| 1985 | #987 | 154 | — | |
| 1984 | #836 | 186 | — | |
| 1983 | #973 | 150 | — | |
| 1982 | #994 | 148 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #1,009 | 144 | — | |
| 1980 | #939 | 159 | — | |
| 1979 | #948 | 155 | — | |
| 1978 | #995 | 137 | — | |
| 1977 | #952 | 145 | — | |
| 1976 | #921 | 142 | #4,935 | 6 |
| 1975 | #889 | 149 | — | |
| 1974 | #871 | 149 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | #955 | 126 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | #1,045 | 111 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,237 | 90 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,389 | 75 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,290 | 76 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,559 | 54 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,484 | 14 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,558 | 13 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,879 | 12 | — | |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shantell! It came in at #5,891, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2017, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Shantell
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2021
- Biggest jump: 137 spots in 1984 (#973 → #836)
- Biggest drop: 151 spots in 1985 (#836 → #987)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 1984 at #836 (186 births)
- Births halved by 1998, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 1982–1990
- Highest: 1 in 8,871 girls born in 1987 were named Shantell (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 182,318 girls born in 2021 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #836 in 1984, was only 1 in 9,053 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.2% of all girls named Shantell (1,689) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 185 | #1,290 (1969) | #3,409 |
| 1970s | 1,279 | #871 (1974) | #1,020 |
| 1980s | 1,689 | #836 (1984) | #937 |
| 1990s | 1,335 | #993 (1990) | #1,354 |
| 2000s | 457 | #1,900 (2000) | #3,698 |
| 2010s | 119 | #5,207 (2011) | #9,773 |
| 2020s | 16 | #10,292 (2021) | #11,217 |
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.
Shantell in 1974
Top girls' names in 1974
Top boys' names in 1974
More about 1974
girls
1,467,534 girls got a published name in 1974; 1 in 9,849 of them was named Shantell, which outranked 91.5% of the 10,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #867Debora150
- #867Latarsha150
- #867Octavia150
- #871Shantell149
- #871Danyell149
- #871Faye149
- #871Rosanna149
- #876Anjanette148
- #876Esperanza148
- #876Francisca148
Tied with 4 names at #871; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,572,334 boys got a published name in 1974; 1 in 314,467 of them was named Shantell, which outranked 12.9% of the 6,004 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 777 names at #5,227; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.