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Shanelle

The girl's name Shanelle has been in the national records since 1966, with 4,625 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 7,491st. About 4,500 Shanelles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 33.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Shanelle

By the numbers

Total US births
4,625
Estimated living today
4,500
Median age today
33
Peak year
1992
Best rank
955th
Rank in 2025
7,491st
First recorded
1966

How old the living Shanelles are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,625 babies given the name since 1966, about 4,500 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 810 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1992 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

From French Chanel, after Coco Chanel and under influence from -elle.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Shanelle is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Shanelle is most concentrated in Hawaii (12.7×), Maryland (3.3×), New York (2.8×), Florida (2.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1992

The most popular girls’ names the year Shanelle peaked:

All the names of 1992

Shanelle elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Shanelle 403 929th
France girls Shanelle 335 1,262nd
Scotland girls Shanelle 12 479th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.