# Shantel (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/shantel/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10,319 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 59 / 10,260 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 177, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 37 | 4,057 |
| 2012 | 29 | 4,948 |
| 2013 | 27 | 5,127 |
| 2014 | 20 | 6,409 |
| 2015 | 19 | 6,690 |
| 2016 | 28 | 4,973 |
| 2017 | 23 | 5,642 |
| 2018 | 15 | 7,710 |
| 2019 | 19 | 6,382 |
| 2020 | 14 | 7,906 |
| 2021 | 9 | 11,029 |
| 2022 | 10 | 10,292 |
| 2023 | 12 | 8,902 |
| 2024 | 8 | 11,998 |
| 2025 | 8 | 11,778 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 6 | 4,987 |
| 1974 | 9 | 3,785 |
| 1975 | 8 | 4,250 |
| 1978 | 5 | 6,616 |
| 1980 | 6 | 6,130 |
| 1981 | 6 | 6,130 |
| 1989 | 7 | 6,827 |
| 1990 | 7 | 7,060 |
| 1993 | 5 | 9,935 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 14 | 1,313 |
| 2001 | 10 | 1,728 |
| 2002 | 16 | 1,245 |
| 2003 | 12 | 1,628 |
| 2004 | 17 | 1,312 |
| 2005 | 13 | 1,690 |
| 2007 | 6 | 3,218 |
| 2008 | 4 | 4,524 |
| 2009 | 6 | 3,422 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,681 |
| 2014 | 5 | 4,003 |
| 2015 | 4 | 4,736 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,927 |

## People named Shantel

- Shantel VanSanten, American actress and model

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.