Shauntel

Meaning & origin

Shauntel is a modern American name first recorded in 1968, during an era of creative coinage that saw many new feminine names emerge. It reached its peak popularity in 1983, when the highest number of newborns received the name. Since then, its use has declined steadily, and in the latest year, 2025, it remains very rare, with fewer than five births per year, resulting in a 1-in-N figure that is too high to be calculated. The name has no recorded usage in earlier decades, placing it firmly in the late 20th-century naming tradition. Its trajectory has been relatively stable in terms of rarity since the 1980s. No top states for Shauntel have been recorded, reflecting its nationwide rarity.

Shauntel is a modern American coinage from the late 1960s, likely formed by combining the phonetically similar name Shauna or its variant Shawna with the fashionable suffix -tel, which appears in names like Chanel. It follows a pattern of creative, feminine-sounding inventions in the mid-20th century. The name first appeared in U.S. records in 1968 and saw modest use through the 1970s and 1980s, reaching a peak in 1983.