Meaning not yet researched.
Shanell: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #787 in 1984.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #787 in 1984; #16,900 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shanell in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#16,900 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1984, at #787.
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Shanell: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #787 in 1984 · most girls in one year: 208 (1990).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Shanell, making it the 16,900th most common girls’ name of the year, down 8,537 places from #8,363 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 13 girls named Shanell in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #787, reached in 1984. The most girls given the name in a single year was 208, in 1990. For comparison, it was #3,694 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shanell in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 13 babies. In all, 4,719 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,556 babies named Shanell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 186 US girls were named Shanell; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shanelle (4,625 babies since 1880), Shanel (2,526 babies since 1880) and Shannel (1,256 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Shannell, Shannelle and Shaneil are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shannell (498), Shannelle (190), Shaneil (176), Shanele (73), Shaneal (62), Shanielle (59), Shaunell (42), Shaniel (40), Shaunelle (31), Shanille (15), Shaynell (6), Shanil (6), and more.
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 Shanell 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 | 5 | #16,900 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,363 | — | — |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,889 | — | — |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,672 | — | — |
| 2021 | 8 | #12,041 | — | — |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,178 | — | — |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,147 | — | — |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,762 | — | — |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,166 | — | — |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,230 | — | — |
| 2015 | 42 | #3,694 | — | — |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,537 | — | — |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,992 | — | — |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,458 | — | — |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,653 | — | — |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,973 | — | — |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,885 | — | — |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,211 | — | — |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,472 | — | — |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,169 | — | — |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,549 | — | — |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,959 | — | — |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,874 | — | — |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,635 | — | — |
| 2001 | 67 | #2,375 | — | — |
| 2000 | 59 | #2,566 | — | — |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,466 | — | — |
| 1998 | 66 | #2,182 | — | — |
| 1997 | 84 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 1996 | 93 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 1995 | 91 | #1,638 | — | — |
| 1994 | 125 | #1,345 | — | — |
| 1993 | 144 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1992 | 159 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1991 | 194 | #972 | — | — |
| 1990 | 208 | #919 | — | — |
| 1989 | 164 | #1,047 | 6 | #7,753 |
| 1988 | 148 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 1987 | 162 | #978 | — | — |
| 1986 | 174 | #925 | — | — |
| 1985 | 136 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1984 | 204 | #787 | — | — |
| 1983 | 140 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1982 | 139 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1981 | 152 | #968 | — | — |
| 1980 | 131 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1979 | 132 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 1978 | 123 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1977 | 103 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 1976 | 90 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 1975 | 103 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1974 | 61 | #1,575 | 6 | #5,134 |
| 1973 | 65 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 1972 | 51 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 1971 | 52 | #1,750 | — | — |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,547 | — | — |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,566 | — | — |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,281 | — | — |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,448 | — | — |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,244 | — | — |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,701 | — | — |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,847 | — | — |
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).