Chantilly
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Chantilly has been given to 253 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 1989, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Chantilly, 2011
1 in 732,000
Chantilly 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Chantilly?
Chantilly had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2011
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,657,935 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 352,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2011
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,099 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Chantilly sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chantilly. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Chantillys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Chantilly was born before 1989 — so the typical Chantilly is around 36 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 41.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 62.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 253
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 41.5% of all recorded uses (105).
Is Chantilly 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1989 (19)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.6% average annual change
Spellings of Chantilly
Chantilly is not the most common spelling — Chantelle is, with 64.1% against Chantilly's 2.4%.
Chantilly around the world
Where Chantilly 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 & Wales2006–2008#4,524in 2008
- South Australia2004–2004#700in 2004
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Chantilly by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Chantilly
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Chantilly
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.