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Shantal

Shantal reached its high-water mark in 1990 at number 1,952, and has been recorded 1,685 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 7,491st. About 1,700 Shantals are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Shantal

By the numbers

Total US births
1,685
Estimated living today
1,700
Median age today
27
Peak year
1990
Best rank
1,952nd
Rank in 2025
7,491st
First recorded
1968

How old the living Shantals are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,685 babies given the name since 1968, about 1,700 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 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 Shantal is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Shantal is most concentrated in California (5.5×), New York (2.4×), Texas (1.7×), Florida (1.7×).

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

Names of 1990

The most popular girls’ names the year Shantal peaked:

All the names of 1990

Related names

Shantal against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.