Shantal
Shantal was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,841 among girls’ names; 1,685 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,650 Americans named Shantal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 18 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shantal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shantal?
#7,841 among girls’ names, 2025
Shantal fell from #6,423 in 2015 to #7,841 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 8.7 per million.
70 babies in 1990, the peak
Shantal peaked in 1990, when 70 girls were given it, #1,964 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,841 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,889 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,370 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,238 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,540 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,640 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,590 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,589 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,052 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,629 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,423 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,435 | 18.5 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,124 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,229 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,113 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,479 | 18.6 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,177 | 20.1 |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,523 | 24.9 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,280 | 18.7 |
| 2006 | 46 | #3,496 | 24.2 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,996 | 29.2 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,431 | 24.0 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,936 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 39 | #3,513 | 21.7 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,406 | 22.2 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,055 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,090 | 24.2 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,411 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 40 | #3,025 | 23.0 |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,584 | 28.0 |
| 1995 | 60 | #2,233 | 34.1 |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,838 | 24.1 |
| 1993 | 63 | #2,142 | 34.8 |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,675 | 24.9 |
| 1991 | 59 | #2,231 | 31.5 |
| 1990 | 70 | #1,964 | 36.9 |
| 1989 | 55 | #2,211 | 29.8 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,458 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 44 | #2,388 | 25.3 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,960 | 18.7 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,397 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,311 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,129 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,239 | 15.9 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,195 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,481 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,088 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,886 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,394 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,131 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,009 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,148 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,970 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,746 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,135 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,255 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,870 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,871 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shantal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shantal has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shantal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shantal, and how old are they?
1,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,685 Americans ever recorded as Shantal. The median Shantal alive today is 28 years old; half are between 18 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,616 people named Shantal (1,605 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,555 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 125 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 652 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 603 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 271 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Shantal born?
The states with the most babies named Shantal are California, New York and Texas, with 88% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 351 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New York | 120 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 82 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 36 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Mexico | 6 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Shantal is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shantal is most over-represented in California: since 1968 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shantal with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 18,202 babies since 1880, Shantal is the third most given (9.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 22 babies (64%), the most given that year.
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 Shantal
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 Shantal and names like it
- Compare Shantal and ShantelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShantal peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shantal since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Shantal.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shantal alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.