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The first name 
Shantelle

Shantelle is a female first name.

Shantelle – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Shantelle in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Shantelle in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Shantelle by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Shantelle ranks at #9,856. That means there are 9,855 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Shantelle.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Shantelle

Shantelle -
at home in half of America

The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Shantelle are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Shantelle in 20 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii or Illinois. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Shantelle live in Louisiana – here, one in 16,092 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 178,490 will turn around if you call her first name Shantelle.

Shantelle has 9 letters 
and begins with an S

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.

With nine letters, the name Shantelle is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Shantelle

If your name is Shantelle and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Shantelle

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Shantelle, you can simply say:

Sun

Hat

Apple

Nut

Tiger

Elephant

Lion

Lion

Elephant

This is how the name Shantelle is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Shantelle in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Shantelle

Shantelle

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Shantelle

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Shantelle is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

S
H
A
N
T
E
L
L
E

Have you ever waved the name Shantelle

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

S
H
A
N
T
E
L
L
E

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Shantelle sounds like this: