Chantal

Where Chantal comes from

Borrowed from French Chantal in the 1960s, from the surname of a French saint Jeanne de Chantal, actually a Baroness of Chantal, a place name in France from Old Occitan cantal (“stone, moellon, rubblestone”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Chantal
  • French
Along the way
  1. 1943
    Chantal Mouffe born
    Belgian post-marxist political theorist
  2. 1947
    First appearance
    #3,706 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1950
    Chantal Akerman born
    Belgian film director, screenwriter, and educator
  4. 1990
    Peak, #553
    428 babies named Chantal — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1998
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,105.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French.
Namesakes
  • Chantal Akerman · Belgian film director, screenwriter, and educator, 1950–2015
  • Chantal Mouffe · Belgian post-marxist political theorist, born 1943
  • Chantal Janzen · Dutch actress and television presenter, born 1979
  • Chantal Goya · French actress and singer, born 1942
  • Chantal Lauby · French actress, comedian, film director and screenwriter, born 1948

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.