girls:
10.2k births since 1963
#1573 (72nd percentile)
boys:
59 births since 1973
#4527 (1st percentile)
overall:
10.3k births since 1963
#2625 (66th percentile)
The name Shantel is the #2,625 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,301 recorded births since 1963. This represents the 66.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 66.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,573 (72.5% percentile) for all time with 10,242 births since 1963. For boys, it ranks #4,527 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 59 births since 1973.
Shantel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1963 (1963 for girls and 1973 for boys).
The name Shantel has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Shantel reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 47.2% percentile (ranked #456) with 237 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 237 births per million (ranked 47.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1991, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Shantel ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 2.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Shantel reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #751) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shantel".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Shantel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.8% confident that Shantel is pronounced as shan-TEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHAN-tehl, at 16.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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