Chante
Chante was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,540 among girls’ names; 3,995 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,860 Americans named Chante and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 32 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chante by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chante?
#13,540 among girls’ names, 2025
Chante entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,540 in 2025.
323 babies in 1993, the peak
Chante peaked in 1993, when 323 girls were given it, #675 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,540 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,958 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,188 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,671 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,175 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,462 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,651 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,449 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,003 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,203 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 17 | #7,455 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,582 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,299 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,727 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,089 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,155 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,303 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,337 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 106 | #1,579 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 66 | #2,164 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 82 | #1,814 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 113 | #1,448 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 139 | #1,228 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 166 | #1,082 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 323 | #675 | 0.18 |
| 1992 | 142 | #1,223 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 133 | #1,259 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 123 | #1,314 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 115 | #1,338 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 130 | #1,172 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 126 | #1,163 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 133 | #1,110 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 126 | #1,138 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 99 | #1,272 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 117 | #1,137 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 120 | #1,161 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 99 | #1,287 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 112 | #1,189 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 126 | #1,086 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 118 | #1,104 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 142 | #972 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 72 | #1,449 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 54 | #1,733 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 50 | #1,776 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 53 | #1,690 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 68 | #1,433 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 56 | #1,643 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 48 | #1,831 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,902 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,305 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 30 | #2,172 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,257 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,753 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,898 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,299 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,578 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,622 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chante a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chante has been given almost only to girls: 33 boys in 57 years of records.
Girls and boys named Chante: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chante, and how old are they?
3,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,995 Americans ever recorded as Chante. The median Chante alive today is 38 years old; half are between 32 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 3,340 people named Chante (3,239 women and girls, 101 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,880 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 | 38 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,010 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,150 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 611 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 47 |
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 Chante born?
The states with the most babies named Chante are New York, California and Illinois, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 382 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 333 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 182 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 155 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 140 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 123 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 115 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 110 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 102 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Maryland | 78 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Chante is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chante 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 Chante 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,939 babies since 1880, Chante is the most given (50% 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 Chante
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 Chante and names like it
- Compare Chante and ChantayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sChante peaked in 1993.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chante since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Chante.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chante alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.