Chantel

Where Chantel comes from

An English variant of Chantal.
— Wiktionary's entry for Chantel
  • French
Chantel through the years
  1. 1957
    First appearance
    #6,086 among girls with 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, the most in any year.
  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.