Chante
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · Last seen for boys in 1980 at #4,495
Given to girls 99.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1993 · 323 births
- Debut · girls
- 13 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,962since 1961
Chante over time
Rank among girls' names. Chante has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | — | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | — | |
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| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | — | |
| 2017 | — | — | ||
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 | — | |
| 2015 | — | — | ||
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | — | |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | — | |
| 2012 | — | — | ||
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | — | |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | — | |
| 2009 | #8,888 | 13 | — | |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 | — | |
| 2007 | #7,394 | 17 | — | |
| 2006 | #5,545 | 24 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,266 | 24 | — | |
| 2004 | #4,707 | 28 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,085 | 48 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,146 | 45 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,304 | 69 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,332 | 66 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,580 | 106 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,164 | 66 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,816 | 82 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,446 | 113 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,229 | 139 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,083 | 166 | — | |
| 1993 | #675 | 323 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,225 | 142 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,263 | 133 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,318 | 123 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,339 | 115 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,173 | 130 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,162 | 126 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,110 | 133 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,138 | 126 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,272 | 99 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,137 | 117 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,160 | 120 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,285 | 99 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,189 | 112 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #1,085 | 126 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | #1,104 | 118 | — | |
| 1977 | #971 | 142 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | #1,446 | 72 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,729 | 54 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #1,772 | 50 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | #1,690 | 53 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,432 | 68 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,640 | 56 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,828 | 48 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,897 | 43 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,296 | 28 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,167 | 30 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,249 | 28 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,744 | 20 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,879 | 12 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,272 | 10 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,608 | 13 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Chante! It came in at #3,608, and was given to 13 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2012, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Chante is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Virginia#841 · 1 in 6,651
- Florida#916 · 1 in 7,335
- Pennsylvania#1,029 · 1 in 9,711
- New York#1,695 · 1 in 16,834
Best ever in a state: #169 in District of Columbia, 1994.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Virginia | #841 | 5 | 1 in 6,651 |
| Florida | #916 | 10 | 1 in 7,335 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,029 | 6 | 1 in 9,711 |
| New York | #1,695 | 6 | 1 in 16,834 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Chante
- Biggest jump: 550 spots in 1993 (#1,225 → #675)
- Biggest drop: 408 spots in 1994 (#675 → #1,083)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 1993 at #675 (323 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1977–1993
- Highest: 1 in 5,601 girls born in 1993 were named Chante (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 35.2% of all girls named Chante (1,393) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 193 | #1,897 (1969) | #3,072 |
| 1970s | 787 | #971 (1977) | #1,470 |
| 1980s | 1,177 | #1,110 (1986) | #1,197 |
| 1990s | 1,393 | #675 (1993) | #1,380 |
| 2000s | 349 | #2,304 (2001) | #5,078 |
| 2010s | 51 | #7,602 (2016) | #12,160 |
| 2020s | 12 | #13,208 (2025) | #13,400 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Chante in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 21,228 of them was named Chante, which outranked 88.8% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,802Priyanka83
- #1,802Shakayla83
- #1,802Shaylyn83
- #1,816Chante82
- #1,816Ambar82
- #1,816Dianne82
- #1,816Elvia82
- #1,828Denae81
- #1,828Dixie81
- #1,828Dorian81
Tied with 11 names at #1,816; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.