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Shontell

About 658 American babies have been named Shontell since 1967, most of them around 1977. It has not appeared in the national data since 2012. About 630 Shontells are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 45.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Shontell boys named Shontell

By the numbers

Total US births
658
Estimated living today
630
Median age today
45
Peak year
1977
Best rank
2,341st
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1967
Girls / boys
652 / 6

How old the living Shontells are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 658 babies given the name since 1967, about 630 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1980 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 Shontell is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Shontell is most concentrated in Louisiana (50.6×).

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

Names of 1977

The most popular girls’ names the year Shontell peaked:

All the names of 1977

Related names

Shontell 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.