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Chantell

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Chantell has been given to 3,496 babies in the U.S. since 1958. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1991, with 155 recorded.

Babies named Chantell, 2020

1 in 557,000

Chantell over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chantell: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chantell means

Chantell is a given name.

The naming story behind Chantell

Wikidata records Chantell as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q134296838, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,491 girls were recorded with the name Chantell between 1958 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 155 in 1991; its best national rank was #1,071 in 1976.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Chantell between 1989 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1989; its best national rank was #8,075 in 1989.

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.

How common is Chantell?

Chantell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 269,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,120 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chantell 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 2020 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 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chantell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chantells were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chantell was born before 1986 — so the typical Chantell is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
30.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,491
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 30.8% of all recorded uses (1,074).

Is Chantell 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1991 (155)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,071
1976

Spellings of Chantell

Chantell is not the most common spelling — Chanel is, with 20.9% against Chantell's 3.8%.

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 Chantell is used

Across 1910–2025, Chantell was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 70,048 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 12,500
  2. 2Utah1 in 25,000
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 50,000
  5. 5Hawaii1 in 50,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 50,000
  7. 7New Mexico1 in 50,000
  8. 8New York1 in 50,000

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

Chantell around the world

Where Chantell 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
    1996–2016
    #5,785
    in 2016
  • Scotland
    1995–2004
    #663
    in 2004
  • Ireland
    1990–2001
    #498
    in 2001
  • Canada
    1991–2001
    #2,269
    in 2001
  • South Australia
    1975–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Chantell by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,071
1976
Peak year
1991
155 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
3,491
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,075
1989
Peak year
1989
5 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chantell

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

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Names with a curve like Chantell

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

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Sibling names for Chantell

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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