girls:
4.7k births since 1964
#2481 (57th percentile)
boys:
12 births since 1974
#4574 (0th percentile)
overall:
4.7k births since 1964
#3986 (48th percentile)
The name Shanell is the #3,986 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,699 recorded births since 1964. This represents the 48.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 48.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,481 (56.6% percentile) for all time with 4,687 births since 1964. For boys, it ranks #4,574 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 1974.
Shanell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1964 (1964 for girls and 1974 for boys).
The name Shanell has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Shanell reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 25.3% percentile (ranked #589) with 113 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 113 births per million (ranked 25.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Shanell ranks #936 for girls (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 8.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Shanell reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shanell".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Shanell is pronounced as shuh-NEHL, which has 2 syllables.
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