Shantell
Shantell was last recorded in 2021, when 9 babies were given it; 5,106 Americans have been recorded with it between 1963 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,920 Americans named Shantell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 33 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shantell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shantell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,025, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
196 babies in 1987, the peak
Shantell peaked in 1987, when 196 girls were given it, #871 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 9 | #11,025 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,262 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,612 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,383 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,006 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,940 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,332 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,880 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,149 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,335 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 21 | #6,350 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,514 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,745 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,789 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,217 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,101 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,681 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,281 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,700 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,730 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 89 | #1,918 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 89 | #1,798 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 84 | #1,841 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 94 | #1,676 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 115 | #1,434 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 129 | #1,296 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 143 | #1,224 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 139 | #1,246 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 177 | #1,042 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 180 | #1,026 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 185 | #991 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 192 | #932 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 184 | #922 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 196 | #871 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 176 | #916 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 154 | #995 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 186 | #836 | 0.11 |
| 1983 | 150 | #978 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 148 | #1,004 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 144 | #1,014 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 159 | #946 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 155 | #949 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 137 | #999 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 145 | #956 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 142 | #922 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 149 | #890 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 149 | #875 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 126 | #957 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 111 | #1,048 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 90 | #1,242 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 75 | #1,405 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 76 | #1,300 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 54 | #1,572 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,617 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,704 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,454 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,057 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,472 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shantell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shantell has been given almost only to girls: 26 boys in 58 years of records.
Girls and boys named Shantell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shantell, and how old are they?
4,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 5,106 Americans ever recorded as Shantell. The median Shantell alive today is 40 years old; half are between 33 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 4,255 people named Shantell (4,217 women and girls, 38 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,956 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 | 16 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,520 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,540 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 776 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 73 |
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 Shantell born?
The states with the most babies named Shantell are Louisiana, New York and Florida, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 597 | not ranked | 6.1× |
| New York | 345 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 306 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 284 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 220 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 207 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 175 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Utah | 94 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 86 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Maryland | 83 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Shantell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shantell is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1963 it was given 6.1 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 Shantell 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, Shantell is the second most given (28% of them). In 2025 none of their 22 babies recorded by SSA was a Shantell (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Shantell
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 Shantell and names like it
- Compare Shantell and ShantelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShantell peaked in 1987.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shantell since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Shantell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shantell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.