How popular is “Shontel” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Shontel” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Shontel” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Shontel” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Shontel” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1967	6	0.000001767	6		100%
1968	12	0.000003552	12		100%
1969	17	0.000004892	17		100%
1970	25	0.000006932	25		100%
1971	33	0.000009614	33		100%
1972	45	0.000014318	45		100%
1973	35	0.000011601	35		100%
1974	33	0.000010855	33		100%
1975	36	0.000011923	36		100%
1976	30	0.000009887	30		100%
1977	42	0.000013222	35	7	67%
1978	18	0.000005671	18		100%
1979	26	0.000007815	19	7	46%
1980	22	0.000006387	22		100%
1981	17	0.000004914	17		100%
1982	18	0.000005131	18		100%
1983	17	0.000004909	17		100%
1984	18	0.000005159	18		100%
1985	24	0.000006724	24		100%
1986	21	0.000005904	21		100%
1987	26	0.000007211	26		100%
1988	20	0.000005413	20		100%
1989	24	0.000006243	19	5	58%
1990	22	0.000005566	22		100%
1991	22	0.000005648	22		100%
1992	31	0.00000807	31		100%
1993	18	0.000004774	18		100%
1994	13	0.000003497	13		100%
1995	22	0.000006007	22		100%
1996	33	0.000009048	33		100%
1997	16	0.000004413	16		100%
1998	9	0.000002447	9		100%
1999	16	0.000004332	16		100%
2000	6	0.000001587	6		100%
2001	8	0.000002137	8		100%
2002	9	0.000002408	9		100%

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