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Chantelle

#7,207 in 2025Girls' name

Stone, moellon, rubblestone, through Chantal

Chantelle has been given to 6,690 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #7,207 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 303 recorded.

Babies named Chantelle, 2025

1 in 221,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chantelle: meaning, origin, and history

Stone, moellon, rubblestone, through Chantal

French

What Chantelle means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Chantelle 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, 6,682 girls were recorded with the name Chantelle between 1963 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 303 in 1989; its best national rank was #670 in 1989.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,191 in 2020 to #7,207 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,085 in 2015 to #7,207 in 2025.

In the United States, 8 boys were recorded with the name Chantelle between 1989 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1989; its best national rank was #5,709 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Chantelle?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,207
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chantelle 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chantelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chantelles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chantelle was born before 1988 — so the typical Chantelle is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
31.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,682
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1980s — 31.3% of all recorded uses (2,089).

Is Chantelle 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
−1,372
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,016
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,122
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.0%
Peak was 1989 (303)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#670
1989

Spellings of Chantelle

Chantelle is not the most common spelling — Chantel is, with 32.3% against Chantelle's 14.4%.

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 Chantelle is used

Across 1910–2025, Chantelle was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 3,846 girls, against 1 in 35,308 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

026 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 3,846
  2. 2Utah1 in 7,143
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 8,333
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 12,500
  5. 5Colorado1 in 16,667
  6. 6Washington1 in 16,667
  7. 7California1 in 20,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 20,000

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

Chantelle around the world

Where Chantelle 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
    1996–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1976–2019
    #765
    in 2019
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2012
    #451
    in 2012
  • Ireland
    1986–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1962–2013
    #275
    in 2013
  • New South Wales
    1983–1996
    #80
    in 1996

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

Notable people named Chantelle

People whose public names include Chantelle, 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.

Chantelle in other languages

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

ChantalShantelShawntel

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

Chantelle by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,207
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,016
Best rank ever
#670
1989
Peak year
1989
303 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,682
Count in 2025
15

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,709
1989
Peak year
1989
8 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
8
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chantelle

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

ChanelleCharnelleCharleighCharletteChantalleChannelleChandelleCharlineCharlizeCharelleCharissaChandlerChanningCharismaCharoletteChassidyAubrielleCharmelleChantalChauntelleCharleyMaybelleCharmaineChantille

Names with a curve like Chantelle

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

FelishaAleshaKiaSalinaStefaniDanyelleShantelRikkiNikoleJaimieEboniShanell

Sibling names for Chantelle

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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