Chantay
Chantay was last recorded in 2000, when 7 babies were given it; 1,108 Americans have been recorded with it between 1960 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Chantay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 41 and 60.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chantay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chantay?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,034, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
80 babies in 1961, the peak
Chantay peaked in 1961, when 80 girls were given it, #1,232 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 7 | #12,034 | 3.9 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,859 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,732 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,809 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,028 | 14.6 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,164 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,356 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,024 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,539 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,485 | 15.7 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 23 | #3,906 | 12.9 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,179 | 16.7 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,564 | 14.0 |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,754 | 19.8 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,928 | 17.8 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,313 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,590 | 21.3 |
| 1981 | 43 | #2,311 | 25.8 |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,349 | 24.7 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,802 | 19.3 |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,017 | 17.0 |
| 1977 | 34 | #2,525 | 22.2 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,737 | 19.1 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,414 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,330 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,837 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,739 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,812 | 15.0 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,314 | 18.9 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,529 | 16.0 |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,253 | 17.7 |
| 1967 | 44 | #1,735 | 26.7 |
| 1966 | 37 | #1,887 | 21.9 |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,857 | 21.5 |
| 1964 | 38 | #1,923 | 20.1 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,312 | 14.0 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,179 | 8.1 |
| 1961 | 80 | #1,232 | 39.6 |
| 1960 | 67 | #1,349 | 33.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chantay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chantay has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chantay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chantay, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 1,108 Americans ever recorded as Chantay. The median Chantay alive today is 49 years old; half are between 41 and 60.
The 2020 Census counted 949 people named Chantay (935 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,051 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 | 195 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 438 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 377 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 18 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,601 babies since 1880, Chantay is the second most given (15% of them).
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 Chantay
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 Chantay and names like it
- Compare Chantay and ChanteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sChantay peaked in 1961.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chantay since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Chantay.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Chantay alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.