girls:
771 births since 1967
#4945 (13th percentile)
boys:
19 births since 1977
#4567 (0th percentile)
overall:
790 births since 1967
#6949 (10th percentile)
The name Shontel is the #6,949 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 790 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 10.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,945 (13.5% percentile) for all time with 771 births since 1967. For boys, it ranks #4,567 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 19 births since 1977.
Shontel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (1967 for girls and 1977 for boys). Birth data for Shontel is available in 36 out of the 36 years between 1967 and 2002 (36 years for girls and 3 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Shontel has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Shontel reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 5.4% percentile (ranked #703) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 28 births per million (ranked 5.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2002.
For boys, Shontel reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #753) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% 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 "Shontel".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Shontel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.0% confident that Shontel is pronounced as shahn-TEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shuhn-TEHL, at 11.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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