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Chantel

#7,566 in 2025Girls' name

Stone, moellon, rubblestone, through Chantal

Chantel has been given to 14,997 babies in the U.S. since 1957. In 2025 it ranked #7,566 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 740 recorded.

Babies named Chantel, 2025

1 in 237,000

Chantel over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chantel: meaning, origin, and history

Stone, moellon, rubblestone, through Chantal

French

What Chantel means

Chantel belongs to the name family reached through Chantel → Chantal. Its meaning is “stone, moellon, rubblestone”.

Origin, language, and formation

Chantel is used in English. Its origins include French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Chantal.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,986 girls were recorded with the name Chantel between 1957 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 740 in 1990; its best national rank was #360 in 1990.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,372 in 2020 to #7,566 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,502 in 2015 to #7,566 in 2025.

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Chantel between 1974 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1989; its best national rank was #5,324 in 1974.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Chantel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,566
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chantel 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chantel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chantels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chantel was born before 1989 — so the typical Chantel is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
14,986
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 34.5% of all recorded uses (5,175).

Is Chantel 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
−571
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,194
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,064
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.58×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.9%
Peak was 1990 (740)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#360
1990

Spellings of Chantel

Chantel is not the most common spelling — Chanel is, with 19.6% against Chantel's 15.4%.

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 Chantel is used

Across 1910–2025, Chantel was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 2,000 girls, against 1 in 12,935 across all states with data. It was least common in Arkansas (1 in —).

050 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 2,000
  2. 2Utah1 in 3,030
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 4,167
  4. 4Colorado1 in 5,882
  5. 5Arizona1 in 6,250
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 6,250
  7. 7Florida1 in 7,143
  8. 8Washington1 in 7,143

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. Chantel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chantel around the world

Where Chantel 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
    1984–2009
    #668
    in 2009
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2002
    #252
    in 2002
  • Ireland
    1989–2007
    #842
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #2,896
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1974–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Chantel

People whose public names include Chantel, 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.

Chantel by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,566
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,194
Best rank ever
#360
1990
Peak year
1990
740 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,986
Count in 2025
14

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,324
1974
Peak year
1989
6 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chantel

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

CharlesCharleeCharleyChasityChantalCharityCharlieChanelCharliChandlerChandraChayaChanaCharlineShantelChanellChauntelCharlizeChanelleCharissaChasidyCharleighCharisChante

Names with a curve like Chantel

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

TiffaniCasandraRachealDevonJenaMarandaAleshaJaimieRocioCortneyNikitaKristyn

Sibling names for Chantel

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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