Shantel
Shantel was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,774 among girls’ names; 10,319 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,980 Americans named Shantel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 31 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shantel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shantel?
#11,774 among girls’ names, 2025
Shantel fell from #6,688 in 2015 to #11,774 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 5.0 per million.
493 babies in 1990, the peak
Shantel peaked in 1990, when 493 babies were given it (486 girls, #498 among girls’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,774 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,993 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,897 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,287 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 9 | #11,024 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,901 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,378 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,706 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,638 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,972 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,688 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,407 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,125 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,946 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,056 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,114 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,727 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,212 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,678 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 83 | #2,305 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 86 | #2,156 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 84 | #2,148 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 129 | #1,519 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 131 | #1,466 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 113 | #1,625 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 161 | #1,234 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 173 | #1,134 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 206 | #983 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 237 | #863 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 398 | #578 | 0.23 |
| 1995 | 337 | #643 | 0.19 |
| 1994 | 358 | #619 | 0.20 |
| 1993 | 402 | #586 | 0.22 |
| 1992 | 439 | #538 | 0.24 |
| 1991 | 439 | #531 | 0.23 |
| 1990 | 486 | #498 | 0.26 |
| 1989 | 457 | #513 | 0.25 |
| 1988 | 404 | #541 | 0.23 |
| 1987 | 419 | #507 | 0.24 |
| 1986 | 359 | #560 | 0.21 |
| 1985 | 342 | #571 | 0.20 |
| 1984 | 302 | #596 | 0.18 |
| 1983 | 245 | #696 | 0.15 |
| 1982 | 255 | #691 | 0.15 |
| 1981 | 224 | #738 | 0.13 |
| 1980 | 219 | #758 | 0.13 |
| 1979 | 251 | #684 | 0.16 |
| 1978 | 214 | #732 | 0.14 |
| 1977 | 207 | #743 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 202 | #730 | 0.14 |
| 1975 | 189 | #755 | 0.13 |
| 1974 | 192 | #745 | 0.13 |
| 1973 | 196 | #725 | 0.13 |
| 1972 | 201 | #716 | 0.13 |
| 1971 | 169 | #824 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 118 | #1,049 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 107 | #1,062 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 99 | #1,065 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,262 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,294 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,030 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,894 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,224 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shantel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shantel has been given almost only to girls: 59 boys in 63 years of records.
Girls and boys named Shantel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shantel, and how old are they?
9,980 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 10,319 Americans ever recorded as Shantel. The median Shantel alive today is 37 years old; half are between 31 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 8,630 people named Shantel (8,568 women and girls, 62 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,013 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 27 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,320 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,730 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,690 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 211 |
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 Shantel born?
The states with the most babies named Shantel are New York, California and Florida, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 1,021 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 792 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 598 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 490 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 478 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Michigan | 432 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 345 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Utah | 331 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 243 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Colorado | 225 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Shantel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shantel is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1963 it was given 4.9 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 Shantel 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 18,468 babies since 1880, Shantel is the most given (56% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 22 babies (36%), the second 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 Shantel
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 Shantel and names like it
- Compare Shantel and ShantellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShantel peaked in 1990.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shantel since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Shantel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shantel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.