Shannell
Shannell was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 498 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shannell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shannell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,314, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1987, the peak
Shannell peaked in 1987, when 29 girls were given it, #3,243 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #17,314 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,812 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,854 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,466 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,396 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,003 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,726 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,115 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,764 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,024 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 8 | #11,608 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,452 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,963 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,644 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,495 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,960 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,362 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,401 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,588 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,355 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,692 | 15.3 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,489 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,992 | 12.9 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,243 | 16.7 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,080 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,819 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,293 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,617 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 20 | #4,005 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,696 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,932 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,877 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,882 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,606 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,846 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,895 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,669 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,135 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,845 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,217 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,812 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shannell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shannell has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shannell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shannell, and how old are they?
An estimated 482 Americans named Shannell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 33 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 470 people named Shannell (467 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 481 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Shannell?
Shannell is a less common spelling of Shanell: SSA has recorded 498 Shannell and 4,719 Shanell since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 9,237 babies since 1880, Shannell is the fourth most given (5.4% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shannell
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shannell and names like it
- Compare Shannell and ShanellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShannell peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shannell since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Shannell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shannell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.