Chantell
Chantell was last recorded in 2020, when 6 babies were given it; 3,496 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,360 Americans named Chantell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 33 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chantell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chantell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,794, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
155 babies in 1991, the peak
Chantell peaked in 1991, when 155 girls were given it, #1,141 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 6 | #13,794 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,159 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,784 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,354 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,083 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,223 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,873 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,822 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,143 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,783 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 15 | #8,178 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,414 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,300 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,606 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,959 | 27.9 |
| 2002 | 39 | #3,466 | 21.7 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,558 | 20.5 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,674 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,440 | 33.3 |
| 1998 | 68 | #2,124 | 38.5 |
| 1997 | 61 | #2,232 | 35.0 |
| 1996 | 69 | #2,018 | 39.4 |
| 1995 | 87 | #1,683 | 49.5 |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,903 | 41.4 |
| 1993 | 91 | #1,652 | 50.3 |
| 1992 | 116 | #1,407 | 62.9 |
| 1991 | 155 | #1,141 | 82.7 |
| 1990 | 153 | #1,128 | 80.6 |
| 1989 | 124 | #1,265 | 67.3 |
| 1988 | 137 | #1,117 | 76.9 |
| 1987 | 114 | #1,241 | 65.6 |
| 1986 | 111 | #1,233 | 64.7 |
| 1985 | 126 | #1,139 | 73.2 |
| 1984 | 109 | #1,198 | 64.7 |
| 1983 | 103 | #1,231 | 61.7 |
| 1982 | 78 | #1,525 | 46.1 |
| 1981 | 92 | #1,354 | 55.2 |
| 1980 | 80 | #1,496 | 48.2 |
| 1979 | 86 | #1,423 | 53.6 |
| 1978 | 80 | #1,437 | 52.2 |
| 1977 | 83 | #1,360 | 54.1 |
| 1976 | 114 | #1,071 | 77.8 |
| 1975 | 93 | #1,231 | 63.8 |
| 1974 | 102 | #1,136 | 69.5 |
| 1973 | 89 | #1,201 | 61.0 |
| 1972 | 81 | #1,264 | 53.2 |
| 1971 | 101 | #1,148 | 60.7 |
| 1970 | 77 | #1,356 | 44.0 |
| 1969 | 55 | #1,611 | 32.6 |
| 1968 | 68 | #1,348 | 41.5 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,712 | 12.7 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,160 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,608 | 12.5 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,835 | 10.6 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,371 | 3.6 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,496 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,497 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chantell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chantell has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 57 years of records.
Girls and boys named Chantell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chantell, and how old are they?
3,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,496 Americans ever recorded as Chantell. The median Chantell alive today is 40 years old; half are between 33 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 2,958 people named Chantell (2,946 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,392 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 33 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,090 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 511 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 29 |
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 Chantell born?
The states with the most babies named Chantell are California, Louisiana and New York, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 266 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 246 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| New York | 215 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 133 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 130 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 129 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 109 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 56 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 50 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Utah | 50 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Chantell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chantell is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1958 it was given 3.7 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 Chantell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Chantell?
Chantell is a less common spelling of Chantel: SSA has recorded 3,496 Chantell and 14,997 Chantel since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 27,687 babies since 1880, Chantell is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 none of their 33 babies recorded by SSA was a Chantell (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Chantell
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 Chantell and names like it
- Compare Chantell and ChantelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sChantell peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chantell since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Chantell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chantell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.