Shantel
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 22 babies a year in the US.
Shantel by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Shantel. In the US, 22 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 486 babies in 1990, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Shantel
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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Other names in the records within a letter or two of Shantel. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Shantel
Names that are said the same way as Shantel, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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