Chael
#9,060 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Chael has been given to 527 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #9,060 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 96 recorded.
Babies named Chael, 2025
1 in 414,000
Chael over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Chael?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,060
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Chael sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chael. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Chaels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Chael was born before 2013 — so the typical Chael is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 76.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 527
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 76.1% of all recorded uses (401).
Is Chael rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −3,359
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,946
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,819
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.23×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 8.3%
- Peak was 2013 (96)
- Years since peak
- 12
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 48.5% average annual change
Spellings of Chael
Chael is not the most common spelling — Michael is, with 80.2% against Chael's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Chael is used
Across 1910–2025, Chael was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,183,832 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Missouri1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Ohio1 in —
- 6Pennsylvania1 in —
- 7Texas1 in —
- 8Wisconsin1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Chael has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Chael around the world
Where Chael ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2011–2024#5,120in 2024
- Canada2010–2018#2,905in 2018
- South Australia2011–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Chael by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Chael
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Chael
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.