Meaning not yet researched.
Shanel: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,341 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,341 in 1983; #10,001 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shanel in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,001 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #1,341.
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Shanel: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,341 in 1983 · most girls in one year: 100 (1991).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Shanel, making it the 10,001st most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,130 places from #8,871 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 12 girls named Shanel in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,341, reached in 1983. The most girls given the name in a single year was 100, in 1991. For comparison, it was #7,560 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shanel in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 6 babies. In all, 2,526 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 769 babies named Shanel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 168 US girls were named Shanel; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shanell (4,719 babies since 1880), Shanelle (4,625 babies since 1880) and Shannel (1,256 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Shanel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #10,001 | — | — |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,871 | — | — |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,046 | — | — |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,291 | — | — |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,925 | — | — |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,517 | — | — |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,379 | — | — |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,756 | — | — |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,769 | — | — |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,829 | — | — |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,560 | — | — |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,539 | — | — |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,738 | — | — |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,110 | — | — |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,699 | — | — |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,950 | — | — |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,092 | — | — |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,860 | — | — |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,118 | — | — |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,982 | — | — |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,862 | — | — |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,373 | — | — |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,098 | — | — |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,236 | — | — |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,538 | — | — |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,953 | — | — |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,925 | — | — |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,563 | — | — |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,866 | — | — |
| 1996 | 66 | #2,105 | — | — |
| 1995 | 56 | #2,364 | — | — |
| 1994 | 62 | #2,183 | — | — |
| 1993 | 66 | #2,087 | — | — |
| 1992 | 97 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 1991 | 100 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 1990 | 96 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 1989 | 73 | #1,833 | — | — |
| 1988 | 78 | #1,669 | — | — |
| 1987 | 75 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1986 | 88 | #1,457 | — | — |
| 1985 | 68 | #1,708 | — | — |
| 1984 | 81 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 1983 | 90 | #1,341 | — | — |
| 1982 | 74 | #1,597 | — | — |
| 1981 | 80 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 1980 | 62 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 1979 | 57 | #1,873 | — | — |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,887 | — | — |
| 1977 | 41 | #2,244 | — | — |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,991 | — | — |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,315 | — | — |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,897 | — | — |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,733 | — | — |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,155 | — | — |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,244 | — | — |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,689 | — | — |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,180 | — | — |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,430 | — | — |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,795 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,390 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,446 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).