Chapel — #5695 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Chapel

The Social Security Administration has registered 249 babies named Chapel between 1996 and 2024, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Chapel currently holds the #5695 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 22 babies received it in a single year. Chapel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 135 additional births since 2001.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chapel performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 126 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Chapel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Chapel in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chapel 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 249 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.