Chantel
Chantel was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,566 among girls’ names; 14,997 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,500 Americans named Chantel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 31 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chantel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Chantel mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Chantel is “a female given name from French.”
An English variant of Chantal.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Chantel?
#7,566 among girls’ names, 2025
Chantel fell from #5,502 in 2015 to #7,566 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 8.7 per million.
740 babies in 1990, the peak
Chantel peaked in 1990, when 740 girls were given it, #360 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,566 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,995 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,003 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,195 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,791 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,372 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,565 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,793 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,952 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,723 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,502 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,795 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,937 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,653 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,803 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,166 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,829 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 72 | #2,590 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 82 | #2,331 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 113 | #1,809 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 108 | #1,804 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 139 | #1,459 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 157 | #1,312 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 181 | #1,143 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 239 | #928 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 249 | #884 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 289 | #767 | 0.16 |
| 1998 | 336 | #680 | 0.19 |
| 1997 | 419 | #558 | 0.24 |
| 1996 | 473 | #507 | 0.27 |
| 1995 | 503 | #489 | 0.29 |
| 1994 | 521 | #479 | 0.29 |
| 1993 | 590 | #425 | 0.33 |
| 1992 | 629 | #405 | 0.34 |
| 1991 | 675 | #382 | 0.36 |
| 1990 | 740 | #360 | 0.39 |
| 1989 | 683 | #372 | 0.37 |
| 1988 | 596 | #404 | 0.33 |
| 1987 | 619 | #378 | 0.36 |
| 1986 | 476 | #453 | 0.28 |
| 1985 | 494 | #441 | 0.29 |
| 1984 | 401 | #495 | 0.24 |
| 1983 | 379 | #511 | 0.23 |
| 1982 | 334 | #554 | 0.20 |
| 1981 | 316 | #584 | 0.19 |
| 1980 | 301 | #609 | 0.18 |
| 1979 | 269 | #647 | 0.17 |
| 1978 | 261 | #633 | 0.17 |
| 1977 | 293 | #588 | 0.19 |
| 1976 | 291 | #569 | 0.20 |
| 1975 | 276 | #587 | 0.19 |
| 1974 | 274 | #579 | 0.19 |
| 1973 | 250 | #616 | 0.17 |
| 1972 | 289 | #571 | 0.19 |
| 1971 | 284 | #603 | 0.17 |
| 1970 | 185 | #772 | 0.11 |
| 1969 | 146 | #862 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 178 | #741 | 0.11 |
| 1967 | 66 | #1,350 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 61 | #1,403 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 57 | #1,464 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 45 | #1,732 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 56 | #1,490 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,807 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,692 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,643 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,198 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chantel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chantel has been given almost only to girls: 11 boys in 67 years of records.
Girls and boys named Chantel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chantel, and how old are they?
14,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 14,997 Americans ever recorded as Chantel. The median Chantel alive today is 37 years old; half are between 31 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 13,006 people named Chantel (12,963 women and girls, 43 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,510 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 | 112 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,260 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,210 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,570 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 342 |
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 Chantel born?
The states with the most babies named Chantel are California, New York and Florida, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,739 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 1,401 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 745 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 681 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 637 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 500 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 478 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 443 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Utah | 423 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Ohio | 389 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Chantel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chantel is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1957 it was given 3.8 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 Chantel 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 27,687 babies since 1880, Chantel is the most given (54% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 33 babies (42%), the second most given that year.
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 Chantel
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 Chantel and names like it
- Compare Chantel and ChantalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sChantel peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chantel since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Chantel: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Chantel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chantel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.