Chantel

Where Chantel comes from

An English variant of Chantal.
— Wiktionary's entry for Chantel
  • French
Along the way
  1. 1957
    First appearance
    #6,086 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1988
    Chantel Jones born
    American soccer player
  3. 1990
    Peak, #360
    740 babies named Chantel — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1991
    Chantel Malone born
    British Virgin Islands long jumper
  5. 1998
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #680.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French.
Namesakes
  • Chantel Malone · British Virgin Islands long jumper, born 1991
  • Chantel Jones · American soccer player, born 1988
  • Chantel Riley · Jamaican-Canadian actress
  • Chantel Jackson · American politician, born 1983
  • Chantel Yiu · Hong Kong female singer and a member of the Hong Kong girl group After Class, born 2006

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.