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Shantal

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Shantal is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
170.00% of girls
Peak year
199070 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1968
1,671people given the name
Babies named Shantal, by year of birthgirls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

1,671 girls have been named Shantal in the United States since 1968, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1990, with 70 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1997, and the 1990s alone account for 30%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Shantal
1960s14
1970s102
1980s296
1990s509
2000s409
2010s244
2020s97

In 1990, its biggest year

Shantal was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1990 were Jessica, Ashley, Brittany, Amanda and Samantha. See all of 1990.

Names that rose and fell with Shantal

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.