Chantel
#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #6,941
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1990 · 740 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,986since 1957
Chantel over time
Rank among girls' names. Chantel has never cracked the top 300 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 | #7,491 | 14 | — | |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 | — | |
| 2021 | #5,748 | 21 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,358 | 31 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,546 | 30 | — | |
| 2018 | #4,768 | 28 | — | |
| 2017 | #4,922 | 27 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,707 | 41 | — | |
| 2015 | #5,458 | 24 | — | |
| 2014 | #4,768 | 29 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,918 | 38 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,644 | 43 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,796 | 62 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,159 | 52 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,826 | 62 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,584 | 72 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,328 | 82 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,809 | 113 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,803 | 108 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,459 | 139 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,313 | 157 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,144 | 181 | — | |
| 2001 | #928 | 239 | — | |
| 2000 | #885 | 249 | — | |
| 1999 | #768 | 289 | — | |
| 1998 | #680 | 336 | — | |
| 1997 | #558 | 419 | — | |
| 1996 | #507 | 473 | — | |
| 1995 | #489 | 503 | — | |
| 1994 | #478 | 521 | — | |
| 1993 | #425 | 590 | — | |
| 1992 | #405 | 629 | — | |
| 1991 | #382 | 675 | — | |
| 1990 | #360 | 740 | — | |
| 1989 | #372 | 683 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #404 | 596 | — | |
| 1987 | #378 | 619 | — | |
| 1986 | #453 | 476 | — | |
| 1985 | #441 | 494 | — | |
| 1984 | #495 | 401 | — | |
| 1983 | #511 | 379 | — | |
| 1982 | #554 | 334 | — | |
| 1981 | #584 | 316 | — | |
| 1980 | #609 | 301 | — | |
| 1979 | #647 | 269 | — | |
| 1978 | #632 | 261 | — | |
| 1977 | #588 | 293 | — | |
| 1976 | #569 | 291 | — | |
| 1975 | #587 | 276 | — | |
| 1974 | #579 | 274 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | #616 | 250 | — | |
| 1972 | #569 | 289 | — | |
| 1971 | #603 | 284 | — | |
| 1970 | #772 | 185 | — | |
| 1969 | #861 | 146 | — | |
| 1968 | #741 | 178 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,348 | 66 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,403 | 61 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,463 | 57 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,731 | 45 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,489 | 56 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,782 | 12 | — | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
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| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 | — | |
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| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Chantel! It came in at #6,086, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1958, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Chantel is popular in 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#627 · 1 in 3,519
- North Carolina#816 · 1 in 5,430
- New York#873 · 1 in 6,055
- Washington#889 · 1 in 5,683
- Michigan#1,024 · 1 in 8,129
Best ever in a state: #46 in Hawaii, 1985.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #627 | 5 | 1 in 3,519 |
| North Carolina | #816 | 8 | 1 in 5,430 |
| New York | #873 | 16 | 1 in 6,055 |
| Washington | #889 | 5 | 1 in 5,683 |
| Michigan | #1,024 | 6 | 1 in 8,129 |
| Florida | #1,036 | 10 | 1 in 7,702 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,079 | 6 | 1 in 9,210 |
| Ohio | #1,259 | 5 | 1 in 11,640 |
| Texas | #1,270 | 16 | 1 in 9,747 |
| Georgia | #1,322 | 5 | 1 in 9,681 |
| Illinois | #1,377 | 6 | 1 in 11,446 |
| California | #1,736 | 13 | 1 in 17,133 |
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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 Chantel
- 559 spots since 2024 (#6,932 → #7,491)
- 3,133 spots since 2020 (#4,358 → #7,491)
- 2,033 spots since 2015 (#5,458 → #7,491)
- Biggest jump: 607 spots in 1968 (#1,348 → #741)
- Biggest drop: 216 spots in 2002 (#928 → #1,144)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 1990 at #360 (740 births)
- Births halved by 1998, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 34 yrs · run 1968–2001
- Highest: 1 in 2,566 girls born in 1990 were named Chantel (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 114,805 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.5% of all girls named Chantel (5,175) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 11 | #5,566 (1959) | #5,826 |
| 1960s | 626 | #741 (1968) | #2,154 |
| 1970s | 2,672 | #569 (1976) | #616 |
| 1980s | 4,599 | #372 (1989) | #480 |
| 1990s | 5,175 | #360 (1990) | #505 |
| 2000s | 1,402 | #885 (2000) | #1,708 |
| 2010s | 374 | #2,796 (2011) | #4,169 |
| 2020s | 127 | #4,358 (2020) | #5,944 |
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.
Chantel in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 9,928 of them was named Chantel, which outranked 93.7% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).