Chantele
Chantele was last recorded in 1999, when 6 babies were given it; 419 Americans have been recorded with it between 1963 and 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chantele by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chantele?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,983, in 1999; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1971, the peak
Chantele peaked in 1971, when 19 girls were given it, #3,385 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 6 | #12,983 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,221 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,314 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,284 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,580 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,708 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,436 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,329 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,587 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,677 | 10.1 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 14 | #5,345 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,003 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,405 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,021 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,503 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,590 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,768 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,172 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,806 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,470 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,977 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,260 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,173 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,827 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,640 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,824 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,385 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,793 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,103 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,818 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,554 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,587 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chantele a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chantele has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chantele: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chantele, and how old are they?
An estimated 400 Americans named Chantele and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 36 and 51. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 368 people named Chantele (367 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 405 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Chantele?
Chantele is a less common spelling of Chantelle: SSA has recorded 419 Chantele and 6,690 Chantelle since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 8,090 babies since 1880, Chantele is the second most given (5.2% 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 Chantele
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 Chantele and names like it
- Compare Chantele and ChantelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sChantele peaked in 1971.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chantele since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Chantele.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chantele alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.