Meaning not yet researched.
Shantel: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #499 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #499 in 1990; #11,778 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shantel in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,778 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #499.
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Shantel: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #499 in 1990 · most girls in one year: 486 (1990).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Shantel, making it the 11,778th most common girls’ name of the year, up 220 places from #11,998 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 8 girls named Shantel in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #499, reached in 1990. That year also had the most girls given the name: 486. For comparison, it was #6,690 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shantel in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 11 babies. In all, 10,319 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 3,487 babies named Shantel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 146 US girls were named Shantel; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shantell (5,106 babies since 1880), Shantelle (2,680 babies since 1880) and Shantal (1,685 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Shauntel, Shauntell and Shantele 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: Shauntel (923), Shauntell (266), Shantele (238), Shantale (125), Shantil (111), Shantall (58), Shauntal (15), Shantail (10), Shanteal (8), Shantiel (5), Shauntele (5).
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 Shantel 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 | 8 | #11,778 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,998 | — | — |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,902 | — | — |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,292 | — | — |
| 2021 | 9 | #11,029 | — | — |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,906 | — | — |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,382 | — | — |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,710 | — | — |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,642 | — | — |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,973 | — | — |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,690 | — | — |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,409 | — | — |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,127 | — | — |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,948 | — | — |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,057 | — | — |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,115 | — | — |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,728 | — | — |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,213 | — | — |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,678 | — | — |
| 2006 | 83 | #2,305 | — | — |
| 2005 | 86 | #2,157 | — | — |
| 2004 | 84 | #2,151 | — | — |
| 2003 | 129 | #1,520 | — | — |
| 2002 | 131 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 2001 | 113 | #1,626 | — | — |
| 2000 | 161 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 1999 | 173 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 1998 | 206 | #984 | — | — |
| 1997 | 237 | #863 | — | — |
| 1996 | 398 | #578 | — | — |
| 1995 | 337 | #643 | — | — |
| 1994 | 358 | #619 | — | — |
| 1993 | 402 | #586 | 5 | #9,935 |
| 1992 | 439 | #538 | — | — |
| 1991 | 439 | #531 | — | — |
| 1990 | 486 | #499 | 7 | #7,060 |
| 1989 | 457 | #513 | 7 | #6,827 |
| 1988 | 404 | #541 | — | — |
| 1987 | 419 | #507 | — | — |
| 1986 | 359 | #560 | — | — |
| 1985 | 342 | #571 | — | — |
| 1984 | 302 | #596 | — | — |
| 1983 | 245 | #696 | — | — |
| 1982 | 255 | #691 | — | — |
| 1981 | 224 | #738 | 6 | #6,130 |
| 1980 | 219 | #758 | 6 | #6,130 |
| 1979 | 251 | #684 | — | — |
| 1978 | 214 | #732 | 5 | #6,616 |
| 1977 | 207 | #743 | — | — |
| 1976 | 202 | #730 | — | — |
| 1975 | 189 | #755 | 8 | #4,250 |
| 1974 | 192 | #745 | 9 | #3,785 |
| 1973 | 196 | #725 | 6 | #4,987 |
| 1972 | 201 | #716 | — | — |
| 1971 | 169 | #824 | — | — |
| 1970 | 118 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 1969 | 107 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 1968 | 99 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,262 | — | — |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,295 | — | — |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,031 | — | — |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,895 | — | — |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,225 | — | — |
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).