Chanel
#1,309 for girls in 2025, 170 births · Last seen for boys in 1996 at #7,971
Given to girls 99.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1991 · 676 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 19,097since 1955
Chanel over time
Rank among girls' names. Chanel 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,309 | 170 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,223 | 192 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,168 | 206 | — | |
| 2022 | #937 | 289 | — | |
| 2021 | #829 | 333 | — | |
| 2020 | #715 | 391 | — | |
| 2019 | #781 | 355 | — | |
| 2018 | #770 | 354 | — | |
| 2017 | #728 | 391 | — | |
| 2016 | #651 | 450 | — | |
| 2015 | #684 | 417 | — | |
| 2014 | #630 | 453 | — | |
| 2013 | #722 | 382 | — | |
| 2012 | #746 | 373 | — | |
| 2011 | #827 | 320 | — | |
| 2010 | #813 | 333 | — | |
| 2009 | #799 | 354 | — | |
| 2008 | #772 | 380 | — | |
| 2007 | #880 | 318 | — | |
| 2006 | #921 | 287 | — | |
| 2005 | #914 | 272 | — | |
| 2004 | #920 | 263 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,008 | 229 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,034 | 209 | — | |
| 2001 | #933 | 238 | — | |
| 2000 | #815 | 278 | — | |
| 1999 | #796 | 275 | — | |
| 1998 | #694 | 325 | — | |
| 1997 | #597 | 378 | — | |
| 1996 | #561 | 416 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #618 | 358 | — | |
| 1994 | #526 | 468 | — | |
| 1993 | #422 | 594 | — | |
| 1992 | #393 | 658 | — | |
| 1991 | #380 | 676 | — | |
| 1990 | #418 | 606 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #468 | 523 | #4,527 | 11 |
| 1988 | #427 | 544 | — | |
| 1987 | #469 | 465 | — | |
| 1986 | #433 | 495 | — | |
| 1985 | #465 | 458 | — | |
| 1984 | #471 | 437 | — | |
| 1983 | #465 | 434 | — | |
| 1982 | #557 | 332 | — | |
| 1981 | #655 | 270 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #650 | 281 | — | |
| 1979 | #660 | 264 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #776 | 198 | — | |
| 1977 | #880 | 163 | — | |
| 1976 | #880 | 151 | — | |
| 1975 | #923 | 140 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,008 | 119 | — | |
| 1973 | #980 | 121 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,219 | 87 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,084 | 111 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,247 | 89 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,242 | 81 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,451 | 61 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,506 | 55 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,766 | 41 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,854 | 38 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,071 | 33 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,922 | 37 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,668 | 21 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,009 | 11 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,619 | 12 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 | — | |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 | — | |
| 1956 | #4,837 | 7 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 | — | |
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| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
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| 1929 | — | #2,980 | 8 | |
| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
| 1927 | — | #4,210 | 5 | |
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| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,505 | 7 | |
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| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
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| 1918 | — | #3,368 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Chanel! It came in at #4,740, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1955–1958, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
See more about Chanel
- 86 spots since 2024 (#1,223 → #1,309)
- 594 spots since 2020 (#715 → #1,309)
- 625 spots since 2015 (#684 → #1,309)
- Biggest jump: 239 spots in 1973 (#1,219 → #980)
- Biggest drop: 231 spots in 2023 (#937 → #1,168)
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 1991 at #380 (676 births)
- Births halved by 1998, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 47 yrs · run 1975–2001
- Highest: 1 in 2,774 girls born in 1991 were named Chanel (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,455 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 24.9% of all girls named Chanel (4,754) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 39 | #3,619 (1959) | #4,693 |
| 1960s | 385 | #1,242 (1969) | #2,366 |
| 1970s | 1,443 | #660 (1979) | #966 |
| 1980s | 4,239 | #427 (1988) | #506 |
| 1990s | 4,754 | #380 (1991) | #541 |
| 2000s | 2,828 | #772 (2008) | #900 |
| 2010s | 3,828 | #630 (2014) | #735 |
| 2020s | 1,581 | #715 (2020) | #1,030 |
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.
Chanel in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 6,178 of them was named Chanel, which outranked 94.6% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 298,530 of them was named Chanel, which outranked 25.0% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,961Zacarias7
- #4,961Zebediah7
- #4,961Zeno7
- #5,468Chanel6
- #5,468Aaren6
- #5,468Abby6
- #5,468Abdon6
- #6,262Aakash5
- #6,262Aarion5
- #6,262Abayomi5
Tied with 793 names at #5,468; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.