How popular is the name Shantel?

Shantel ranks 1,089th among girls' names in US records, with 15,417 births since 1963. Over the past decade it accounts for 213.

Is Shantel a unisex name?

No. Shantel is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1990, when 671 children were given the name. It has been in use for 62 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Shantell. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,089 of girl names

Pronounced SH AE1 N T EH1 L (ARPABET)

Shantel is a girls' name, and first appears in 1963. It has been given to 15,417 children — the 1,089th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 213 births across the past decade, against a peak of 671 in a single year. That peak was in 1990.

Shantell is counted with it here, since the two are pronounced identically.

1990Girls: 671Boys: 7

These spellings sound identical to Shantel and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Shantel?: Shantel ranks 1,089th among girls' names in US records, with 15,417 births since 1963. Over the past decade it accounts for 213.
Is Shantel a unisex name?: No. Shantel is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Shantel most popular?: 1990, when 671 children were given the name. It has been in use for 62 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Shantel spelled?: Shantell. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.