Chantele — girls' name
419 babies named Chantele in U.S. Social Security records since 1963, with the highest year being 1971. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
37% of everyone ever named Chantele was born in this single decade.
19 babies were named Chantele in 1971 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Chantele
The Social Security Administration has registered 419 babies named Chantele between 1963 and 1999, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Chantele currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1999. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 19 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Chantele performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 155 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Chantele shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Chantele in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Chantele in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 419 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Chantele at a glance
Last recorded 1999Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Chantele popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1999–1963
- Peak year (1971)
- 19
- Annual births at peak — across 37 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1999.
419 total births across 37 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1971 with 19 births in a single year.
Chantele by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 155 births that decade — 37% of Chantele's all-time total
Chantele decade highlights
- Peak decade 155 births
- Runner-up 118 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Chantele's strongest decade
155 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% of all-time use.
Chantele by state
Where Chantele concentrates geographically — total births since 1963
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 1.2% |
5 of 419 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 1.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 1.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1963–1999 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.