How rare is the name Chanelle?

4,282 people in the United States have the first name Chanelle, about 1 in 70,535. It ranks #4,386 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

CHANELLE

#4,386

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,282
About
1 in 70,535
This common or more
84%
Who bears it

Of the 4,282 people named Chanelle, 46.7% reported their origin as Black, 21.8% as White and 15.4% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Chanelle peaked in 1991, when 224 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19632025
Peak year
1991
Births that year
224
In 2025*
20 ▼91%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,223 babies have been given the name since 1963. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Chanelle by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,790. The largest share of babies named Chanelle, 47.9%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1960s#7,39778
1970s#3,249433
1980s#1,7901,405
1990s#2,0751,490
2000s#3,575905
2010s#4,309741
2020s#8,197171
Baby boom 1946–640.3%
Generation X 1965–8011.4%
Millennials 1981–9647.9%
Generation Z 1997–1228.2%
2013 and later12.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Chanelle is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Chanelle has been most common in Hawaii (9.7×), California (2.8×), and Florida (2.7×), and least common in Virginia (0.67×).

2,785 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Chanelle

#4,384 Noble · 4,287#4,384 Reta · 4,287#4,387 Keli · 4,280#4,388 Leeanne · 4,279

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Chanelle, most common first.

#1,891 Chanel · 15,131#6,999 Chanell · 2,227#15,579 Chenelle · 736#26,764 Channell · 346#29,690 Channelle · 297#31,690 Chenell · 269#34,261 Chenille · 239#38,294 Chanele · 201

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