Shuntel — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shuntel

The Social Security Administration has registered 140 babies named Shuntel between 1969 and 1996, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shuntel currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1996. The name reached its historical peak in 1974, when 12 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shuntel performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 73 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shuntel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shuntel in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shuntel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 140 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.