Chantal
#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #6,229
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1990 · 428 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,469since 1947
Chantal over time
Rank among girls' names. Chantal has never cracked the top 500 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 | #6,116 | 19 | — | |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 | — | |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,413 | 31 | — | |
| 2020 | #5,850 | 20 | — | |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 | — | |
| 2018 | #5,454 | 23 | — | |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,850 | 28 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,389 | 47 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,137 | 52 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,123 | 52 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,314 | 49 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,695 | 65 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,870 | 60 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,338 | 83 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,927 | 109 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,071 | 98 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,865 | 109 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,417 | 151 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,586 | 124 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,454 | 135 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,179 | 174 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,277 | 154 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,305 | 146 | — | |
| 1999 | #921 | 229 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,105 | 174 | — | |
| 1997 | #911 | 220 | — | |
| 1996 | #824 | 244 | — | |
| 1995 | #728 | 281 | — | |
| 1994 | #860 | 228 | — | |
| 1993 | #764 | 269 | — | |
| 1992 | #718 | 297 | — | |
| 1991 | #611 | 369 | — | |
| 1990 | #553 | 428 | — | |
| 1989 | #582 | 376 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #662 | 292 | — | |
| 1987 | #580 | 342 | — | |
| 1986 | #706 | 254 | — | |
| 1985 | #776 | 218 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,018 | 140 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,019 | 138 | — | |
| 1982 | #859 | 179 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,036 | 138 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,238 | 106 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,482 | 80 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,221 | 102 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,268 | 94 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,139 | 103 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,278 | 87 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,486 | 66 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,312 | 77 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,181 | 91 | — | |
| 1971 | #935 | 138 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,168 | 99 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,007 | 115 | — | |
| 1968 | #951 | 118 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,441 | 59 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,430 | 59 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,500 | 55 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,393 | 65 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,649 | 48 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,947 | 35 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,036 | 33 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,573 | 22 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,152 | 28 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,260 | 25 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,651 | 19 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,826 | 17 | — | |
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| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,269 | 12 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,796 | 9 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,284 | 11 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,235 | 11 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,255 | 19 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,706 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Chantal! It came in at #3,706, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1955, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Chantal is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Florida#474 · 1 in 3,381
- Massachusetts#598 · 1 in 6,324
- Washington#687 · 1 in 5,522
- New York#851 · 1 in 7,795
- Michigan#963 · 1 in 11,731
Best ever in a state: #166 in New Hampshire, 1987.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Florida | #474 | 16 | 1 in 3,381 |
| Massachusetts | #598 | 5 | 1 in 6,324 |
| Washington | #687 | 5 | 1 in 5,522 |
| New York | #851 | 13 | 1 in 7,795 |
| Michigan | #963 | 5 | 1 in 11,731 |
| California | #1,017 | 18 | 1 in 10,072 |
| Ohio | #1,036 | 5 | 1 in 14,450 |
| Texas | #1,575 | 6 | 1 in 20,622 |
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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 Chantal
- 526 spots since 2024 (#6,642 → #6,116)
- 266 spots since 2020 (#5,850 → #6,116)
- 2,727 spots since 2015 (#3,389 → #6,116)
- Biggest jump: 490 spots in 1968 (#1,441 → #951)
- Biggest drop: 384 spots in 2000 (#921 → #1,305)
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 1990 at #553 (428 births)
- Births halved by 1998, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 1985–1997
- Highest: 1 in 4,436 girls born in 1990 were named Chantal (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 84,593 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 32.3% of all girls named Chantal (2,739) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 36 | #2,255 (1948) | #3,284 |
| 1950s | 140 | #2,152 (1959) | #3,083 |
| 1960s | 609 | #951 (1968) | #1,593 |
| 1970s | 937 | #935 (1971) | #1,247 |
| 1980s | 2,183 | #580 (1987) | #848 |
| 1990s | 2,739 | #553 (1990) | #800 |
| 2000s | 1,283 | #1,179 (2002) | #1,642 |
| 2010s | 420 | #2,695 (2011) | #4,016 |
| 2020s | 122 | #4,413 (2021) | #6,044 |
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.
Chantal in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 12,087 of them was named Chantal, which outranked 91.5% 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).
- #1,025Tiffiny140
- #1,034Alena139
- #1,034Luisa139
- #1,036Chantal138
- #1,036Ayesha138
- #1,036Felisha138
- #1,036Mai138
- #1,045Crissy137
- #1,045Darcie137
- #1,045Jonelle137
Tied with 8 names at #1,036; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.