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Chantal

#6,166 in 2025Girls' name

Stone, moellon, rubblestone

Chantal has been given to 8,476 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #6,166 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 428 recorded.

Babies named Chantal, 2025

1 in 174,000

Chantal over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chantal: meaning, origin, and history

Stone, moellon, rubblestone

French and English

What Chantal means

Chantal means “stone, moellon, rubblestone”, associated with cantal.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from French Chantal in the 1960s, from the surname of a French saint Jeanne de Chantal, actually a Baroness of Chantal, a place name in France from Old Occitan cantal (“stone, moellon, rubblestone”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Chantal (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Chantal is used in English, Cebuano, French and Tagalog. Its origins include French and English.

Chantal comes through French Chantal.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Cebuano, Chantal is pronounced /siˈantal/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,469 girls were recorded with the name Chantal between 1947 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 428 in 1990; its best national rank was #552 in 1990.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,901 in 2020 to #6,166 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,398 in 2015 to #6,166 in 2025.

In the United States, 7 boys were recorded with the name Chantal between 1989 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1989; its best national rank was #6,313 in 1989.

How common is Chantal?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 84,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,166
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chantal sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chantal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chantals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chantal was born before 1990 — so the typical Chantal is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
32.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,433
People you could plausibly meet
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1990s — 32.3% of all recorded uses (2,739).

Is Chantal 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
+518
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−265
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,768
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.40×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.4%
Peak was 1990 (428)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#552
1990

Spellings of Chantal

Chantal is not the most common spelling — Chanel is, with 19.5% against Chantal's 8.7%.

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 Chantal is used

Across 1910–2025, Chantal was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 24,915 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 10,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 11,111
  3. 3Arizona1 in 14,286
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 14,286
  5. 5New York1 in 14,286
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 16,667
  7. 7New Hampshire1 in 16,667
  8. 8Texas1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Chantal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chantal around the world

Where Chantal 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 & Wales
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    1978–1994
    #431
    in 1994
  • Ireland
    1975–2011
    #937
    in 2011
  • France
    1901–2025
    #5,697
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1962–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Chantal

People whose public names include Chantal, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Chantal in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Chantal. Linked forms have their own page here.

ShantelChantelleXantal

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Chantal by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,166
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 265
Best rank ever
#552
1990
Peak year
1990
428 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,469
Count in 2025
19

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,313
1989
Peak year
1989
7 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chantal

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CharleyCharlesChantelCharleeChandlerCharlineChasityCharliChanellCharlizeChanelleCharissaChasidyCharisCharityChanteChanningCharlynCharismaCharlieChanelKristalCharleighChassidy

Names with a curve like Chantal

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Chantal, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AlyciaLeandraKirstinStefaniKristynAlysiaKristianDeandraRikkiMarandaJustinaAlesha

Sibling names for Chantal

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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