Chanell
Chanell was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,171 among girls’ names; 2,897 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,810 Americans named Chanell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 26 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chanell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chanell?
#12,171 among girls’ names, 2025
Chanell fell from #3,857 in 2015 to #12,171 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.8 to 4.4 per million.
114 babies in 1991, the peak
Chanell peaked in 1991, when 114 girls were given it, #1,404 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,171 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,687 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,665 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,955 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,741 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,985 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,470 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,166 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,829 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,968 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,857 | 21.8 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,507 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,264 | 19.4 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,858 | 16.5 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,673 | 23.9 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,213 | 19.7 |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,421 | 26.1 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,284 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,727 | 22.4 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,630 | 22.6 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,520 | 22.7 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,911 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,888 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,606 | 20.6 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,498 | 21.1 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,982 | 25.9 |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,106 | 23.7 |
| 1998 | 49 | #2,734 | 27.7 |
| 1997 | 60 | #2,262 | 34.5 |
| 1996 | 63 | #2,154 | 35.9 |
| 1995 | 63 | #2,126 | 35.8 |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,208 | 33.6 |
| 1993 | 72 | #1,945 | 39.8 |
| 1992 | 102 | #1,528 | 55.3 |
| 1991 | 114 | #1,404 | 60.8 |
| 1990 | 110 | #1,430 | 57.9 |
| 1989 | 90 | #1,562 | 48.8 |
| 1988 | 112 | #1,291 | 62.9 |
| 1987 | 106 | #1,301 | 61.0 |
| 1986 | 92 | #1,393 | 53.6 |
| 1985 | 72 | #1,633 | 41.8 |
| 1984 | 94 | #1,307 | 55.8 |
| 1983 | 89 | #1,349 | 53.3 |
| 1982 | 83 | #1,448 | 49.0 |
| 1981 | 87 | #1,408 | 52.2 |
| 1980 | 69 | #1,661 | 41.6 |
| 1979 | 69 | #1,627 | 43.0 |
| 1978 | 52 | #1,893 | 33.9 |
| 1977 | 60 | #1,718 | 39.1 |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,972 | 30.7 |
| 1975 | 41 | #2,101 | 28.1 |
| 1974 | 32 | #2,402 | 21.8 |
| 1973 | 38 | #2,095 | 26.1 |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,105 | 24.3 |
| 1971 | 33 | #2,343 | 19.8 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,788 | 14.3 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,711 | 14.2 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,331 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,340 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,706 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,886 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,127 | 5.8 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,945 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,949 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chanell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chanell has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chanell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chanell, and how old are they?
2,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,897 Americans ever recorded as Chanell. The median Chanell alive today is 36 years old; half are between 26 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 2,227 people named Chanell (2,216 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,777 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 22 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 530 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,370 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 655 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 235 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Chanell born?
The states with the most babies named Chanell are New York, California and Michigan, with 56% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 269 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 262 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 107 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 92 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 74 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 70 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 60 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 51 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 47 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 33 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Chanell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chanell is most over-represented in New York: since 1961 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Chanell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Chanell?
Chanell is a less common spelling of Chanel: SSA has recorded 2,897 Chanell and 19,182 Chanel since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 23,994 babies since 1880, Chanell is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 177 babies (4.0%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Chanell
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Chanell and names like it
- Compare Chanell and ChanelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sChanell peaked in 1991.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chanell since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Chanell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chanell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.