Chenelle
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Chenelle has been given to 804 babies in the U.S. since 1964. 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 1990, with 41 recorded.
Babies named Chenelle, 2021
1 in 565,000
Chenelle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Chenelle?
Chenelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 565,000
- 6 of 3,389,958 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 273,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,624 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Chenelle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chenelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Chenelles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Chenelle was born before 1988 — so the typical Chenelle is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 32.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 24.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 804
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 32.7% of all recorded uses (263).
Is Chenelle 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1990 (41)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.8% average annual change
Spellings of Chenelle
Chenelle is not the most common spelling — Jenelle is, with 19.1% against Chenelle's 2.1%.
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 Chenelle is used
Across 1910–2025, Chenelle was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 593,307 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Michigan1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Ohio1 in —
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. Chenelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Chenelle around the world
Where Chenelle 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 & Wales1996–2008#3,860in 2008
- Canada1991–1999#2,493in 1999
- South Australia1977–2004#700in 2004
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Chenelle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Chenelle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Chenelle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.