Chanelle
Chanelle was given to 20 girls in 2025, #5,959 among girls’ names; 5,223 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,100 Americans named Chanelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 20 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chanelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chanelle?
#5,959 among girls’ names, 2025
Chanelle fell from #2,414 in 2015 to #5,959 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 42.6 to 12.4 per million.
224 babies in 1991, the peak
Chanelle peaked in 1991, when 224 girls were given it, #878 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,959 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,328 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,583 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,048 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,426 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,697 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,240 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,626 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,934 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,601 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 76 | #2,414 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 94 | #2,073 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 87 | #2,157 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 112 | #1,812 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 68 | #2,618 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 89 | #2,185 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 117 | #1,832 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 93 | #2,159 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 104 | #1,973 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 92 | #2,111 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 80 | #2,258 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 76 | #2,290 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 82 | #2,126 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 80 | #2,113 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 84 | #2,010 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 97 | #1,788 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 85 | #1,858 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 102 | #1,597 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 111 | #1,475 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 116 | #1,424 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 122 | #1,345 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 148 | #1,189 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 182 | #1,016 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 194 | #980 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 224 | #878 | 0.12 |
| 1990 | 206 | #924 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 196 | #916 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 186 | #916 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 180 | #921 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 141 | #1,068 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 130 | #1,109 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 140 | #1,018 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 137 | #1,026 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 93 | #1,338 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 105 | #1,240 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 97 | #1,311 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 86 | #1,422 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 64 | #1,656 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,779 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 48 | #1,884 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 35 | #2,325 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,505 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,578 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 38 | #2,060 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,074 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,789 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,219 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,024 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,364 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,924 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,238 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,390 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,723 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chanelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chanelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chanelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chanelle, and how old are they?
5,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,223 Americans ever recorded as Chanelle. The median Chanelle alive today is 33 years old; half are between 20 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 4,282 people named Chanelle (4,271 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,970 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 13 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 558 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,430 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,460 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 639 |
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 Chanelle born?
The states with the most babies named Chanelle are California, New York and Florida, with 53% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 788 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 439 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Florida | 261 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 199 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 166 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 126 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 112 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 99 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 95 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Hawaii | 84 | not ranked | 3.9× |
Where Chanelle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chanelle is most over-represented in New York: since 1963 it was given 1.2 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 Chanelle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,665 babies since 1880, Chanelle is the most given (92% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 20 babies (100%), again the 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 Chanelle
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 Chanelle and names like it
- Compare Chanelle and ChannelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sChanelle peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chanelle since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Chanelle.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chanelle alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.