In 2025, 14 US girls were named Shanelle, making it the 7,842nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,716 places from #6,126 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 20 girls named Shanelle in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #960, reached in 1992. That year also had the most girls given the name: 201. For comparison, it was #3,172 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shanelle in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 6 babies. In all, 4,625 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,413 babies named Shanelle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 318 US girls were named Shanelle; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shanell (4,719 babies since 1880) and Shanel (2,526 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Shauneille and Shaunielle are summarised on this page.