Chantelle
Chantelle was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,207 among girls’ names; 6,690 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,450 Americans named Chantelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 31 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chantelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Chantelle mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Chantelle 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 Chantelle?
#7,207 among girls’ names, 2025
Chantelle fell from #4,085 in 2015 to #7,207 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 20.2 to 9.3 per million.
311 babies in 1989, the peak
Chantelle peaked in 1989, when 311 babies were given it (303 girls, #670 among girls’ names). The 15 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,207 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,835 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,213 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,818 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,743 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,191 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,472 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,167 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,091 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,362 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #4,085 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,678 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,684 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,737 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,165 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,509 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,032 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,285 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,585 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,142 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,268 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 66 | #2,527 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,676 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,938 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 74 | #2,193 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 77 | #2,105 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 100 | #1,654 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 122 | #1,403 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 135 | #1,291 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 175 | #1,055 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 195 | #964 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 200 | #933 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 224 | #863 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 265 | #776 | 0.14 |
| 1991 | 281 | #739 | 0.15 |
| 1990 | 290 | #720 | 0.15 |
| 1989 | 303 | #670 | 0.16 |
| 1988 | 243 | #770 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 259 | #704 | 0.15 |
| 1986 | 246 | #723 | 0.14 |
| 1985 | 233 | #743 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 166 | #899 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 172 | #881 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 161 | #931 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 159 | #938 | 0.10 |
| 1980 | 147 | #995 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 142 | #1,007 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 100 | #1,242 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 131 | #1,024 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 148 | #893 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 122 | #999 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 130 | #952 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 125 | #958 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 139 | #901 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 139 | #933 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 127 | #985 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 100 | #1,104 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 109 | #1,002 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,753 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,955 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 33 | #2,034 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 30 | #2,203 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 31 | #2,136 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chantelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chantelle has been given almost only to girls: 8 boys in 63 years of records.
Girls and boys named Chantelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chantelle, and how old are they?
6,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 6,690 Americans ever recorded as Chantelle. The median Chantelle alive today is 38 years old; half are between 31 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 6,004 people named Chantelle (6,001 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,407 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 53 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,650 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,480 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 974 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 291 |
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 Chantelle born?
The states with the most babies named Chantelle are California, New York and Louisiana, with 39% 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 | 748 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 445 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 355 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Florida | 267 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 237 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Utah | 177 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Texas | 167 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Washington | 150 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 143 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 141 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Chantelle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chantelle is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1963 it was given 4.3 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 Chantelle 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 8,343 babies since 1880, Chantelle is the most given (80% 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 Chantelle
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 Chantelle and names like it
- Compare Chantelle and ChanteleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sChantelle peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chantelle since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Chantelle: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Chantelle.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chantelle alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.