Shanel
Shanel is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 12 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 120.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1991100 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1962
- 2,515people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,515 girls have been named Shanel in the United States since 1962, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1991, with 100 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 1990, and the 1980s alone account for 31%.
By decade
In 1991, its biggest year
Shanel was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1991 were Ashley, Jessica, Brittany, Amanda and Samantha. See all of 1991.
Names that rose and fell with Shanel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Chanellpeak 1991
- Kacypeak 1990
- Shanellpeak 1990
- Aleishapeak 1989
- Shanellepeak 1992
- Bethanypeak 1987
- Aleshapeak 1990
- Nishapeak 1984
Other spellings in the data
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.