first name
SHANTELL
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,255 people named Shantell, 62.1% reported their origin as Black, 20.8% as White and 9.9% as Hispanic or Latino. 99.1% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Shantell peaked in 1987, when 196 babies got the name.
At least 5,106 babies have been given the name since 1963. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Shantell by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,586. The largest share of babies named Shantell, 51.1%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
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 Shantell is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shantell has been most common in Louisiana (11×), Utah (3.9×), and Hawaii (3.3×), and least common in Ohio (0.23×).
2,885 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.
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