How rare is the name Shantel?

8,630 people in the United States have the first name Shantel, about 1 in 34,998. It ranks #2,715 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

SHANTEL

#2,715

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,630
About
1 in 34,998
This common or more
80.6%
Who bears it

Of the 8,630 people named Shantel, 47.7% reported their origin as Black, 29.1% as White and 14.1% as Hispanic or Latino. 99.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Shantel peaked in 1990, when 493 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19632025
Peak year
1990
Births that year
493
In 2025*
8 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 10,319 babies have been given the name since 1963. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Shantel by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,083. The largest share of babies named Shantel, 57.1%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1960s#3,414312
1970s#1,3211,967
1980s#1,0833,245
1990s#1,1873,487
2000s#3,386976
2010s#8,567271
2020s#16,01261
Baby boom 1946–640.3%
Generation X 1965–8024%
Millennials 1981–9657.1%
Generation Z 1997–1216.6%
2013 and later2.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Shantel is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shantel has been most common in Hawaii (8.9×), Utah (5.2×), and Louisiana (3.4×), and least common in Tennessee (0.35×).

7,689 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Shantel

1 other first name also has 8,630 people.

#2,715 Haylie · 8,630

Either side of Shantel

#2,714 Alycia · 8,631#2,715 Haylie · 8,630#2,717 Andrey · 8,627#2,718 Channing · 8,623

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Shantel, most common first.

#4,408 Shantell · 4,255#6,945 Shantelle · 2,251#8,836 Shantal · 1,616#13,210 Shawntel · 920#14,468 Shauntel · 815#16,536 Shaindel · 680#16,739 Shontel · 669#18,286 Shontell · 591

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