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Shantelle

Shantelle is a girl's name that peaked in 1987, when it was the 1,179th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2019. About 2,600 Shantelles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 38.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Shantelle

By the numbers

Total US births
2,680
Estimated living today
2,600
Median age today
38
Peak year
1987
Best rank
1,179th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1964

How old the living Shantelles are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,680 babies given the name since 1964, about 2,600 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1987 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 Shantelle is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Shantelle is most concentrated in Louisiana (10.7×), Hawaii (7.9×), Utah (6.6×), New Mexico (5.0×).

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

Names of 1987

The most popular girls’ names the year Shantelle peaked:

All the names of 1987

Shantelle elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Shantelle 281 705th
Scotland girls Shantelle 29 371st
Ireland girls Shantelle 17 440th
Northern Ireland girls Shantelle 6 343rd
Poland girls Shantelle 2 birth registrations 734th

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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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.