How rare is the name Chantal?

10,546 people in the United States have the first name Chantal, about 1 in 28,639. It ranks #2,374 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

CHANTAL

#2,374

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
10,546
About
1 in 28,639
This common or more
79.6%
Who bears it

Of the 10,546 people named Chantal, 40.1% reported their origin as White, 27.2% as Black and 25% 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.

Chantal peaked in 1990, when 428 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19472025
Peak year
1990
Births that year
428
In 2025*
19 ▼96%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 8,476 babies have been given the name since 1947. 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.

Chantal by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,365. The largest share of babies named Chantal, 49.6%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1940s#7,81236
1950s#4,848140
1960s#2,327609
1970s#2,034937
1980s#1,3652,190
1990s#1,3902,739
2000s#2,7941,283
2010s#6,369420
2020s#10,192122
Baby boom 1946–644.5%
Generation X 1965–8017.1%
Millennials 1981–9649.6%
Generation Z 1997–1224.5%
2013 and later4.3%

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 Chantal is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Chantal has been most common in California (2.9×), Florida (2.5×), and New York (2×), and least common in Indiana (0.24×).

5,632 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 Chantal

#2,372 Galina · 10,564#2,373 Kyrie · 10,560#2,375 Franco · 10,542#2,376 Rafaela · 10,532

Spelled almost the same

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

#2,086 Chantel · 13,006#5,705 Chantell · 2,958#15,392 Chantale · 748#21,789 Chauntel · 463#25,678 Chantele · 368#26,063 Chantalle · 360#37,708 Chandel · 206#38,064 Chantil · 203

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