Shantel

Where Shantel comes from

Shantel hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1963
    First appearance
    #4,019 among girls, 11 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1973
    Shantel Krebs born
    American politician
  3. 1985
    Shantel VanSanten born
    American actress and model
  4. 1990
    Peak, #499
    486 babies named Shantel — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1997
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #861.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Shantel VanSanten · American actress and model, born 1985
  • Shantel Krebs · American politician, born 1973

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.