Meaning not yet researched.
Chanel: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 170 in 2025. Its best rank was #380 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #380 in 1991; #1,311 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Chanel in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,311 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #380.
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Chanel: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 170 girls in 2025. Peak: #380 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 676 (1991).
In 2025, 170 US girls were named Chanel, making it the 1,311th most common girls’ name of the year, down 87 places from #1,224 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 192 girls named Chanel in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #380, reached in 1991. That year also had the most girls given the name: 676. For comparison, it was #685 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chanel in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 7 babies. In all, 19,182 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 4,765 babies named Chanel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,131 US girls were named Chanel; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 450. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,455 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Chanel ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #876 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Chanelle (5,223 babies since 1880), Chanell (2,897 babies since 1880) and Channel (1,524 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Channell, Chanele and Chaniel are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Channell (391), Chanele (167), Chaniel (27).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Chanel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 18 | #876 | #368 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #917 | #1,123 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,077 | #438 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,082 | #980 |
| California | 23 | #1,119 | #567 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,240 | #427 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,254 | #736 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,321 | #651 |
| New York | 10 | #1,340 | #761 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,448 | #931 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,501 | #1,082 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 170 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 2024 | 192 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 2023 | 206 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 2022 | 289 | #937 | — | — |
| 2021 | 333 | #829 | — | — |
| 2020 | 391 | #715 | — | — |
| 2019 | 355 | #781 | — | — |
| 2018 | 354 | #772 | — | — |
| 2017 | 391 | #728 | — | — |
| 2016 | 450 | #652 | — | — |
| 2015 | 417 | #685 | — | — |
| 2014 | 453 | #630 | — | — |
| 2013 | 382 | #722 | — | — |
| 2012 | 373 | #746 | — | — |
| 2011 | 320 | #827 | — | — |
| 2010 | 333 | #813 | — | — |
| 2009 | 354 | #799 | — | — |
| 2008 | 380 | #772 | — | — |
| 2007 | 318 | #881 | — | — |
| 2006 | 287 | #923 | — | — |
| 2005 | 272 | #915 | — | — |
| 2004 | 263 | #920 | — | — |
| 2003 | 229 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 2002 | 209 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 2001 | 238 | #933 | — | — |
| 2000 | 278 | #815 | — | — |
| 1999 | 275 | #796 | — | — |
| 1998 | 325 | #694 | — | — |
| 1997 | 378 | #597 | — | — |
| 1996 | 416 | #561 | 6 | #8,109 |
| 1995 | 358 | #618 | — | — |
| 1994 | 468 | #526 | — | — |
| 1993 | 594 | #422 | — | — |
| 1992 | 658 | #393 | — | — |
| 1991 | 676 | #380 | — | — |
| 1990 | 606 | #418 | 5 | #8,315 |
| 1989 | 523 | #468 | 11 | #4,561 |
| 1988 | 544 | #427 | — | — |
| 1987 | 465 | #469 | — | — |
| 1986 | 495 | #434 | — | — |
| 1985 | 458 | #465 | — | — |
| 1984 | 437 | #471 | — | — |
| 1983 | 434 | #465 | — | — |
| 1982 | 332 | #557 | — | — |
| 1981 | 270 | #655 | 6 | #5,612 |
| 1980 | 281 | #650 | — | — |
| 1979 | 264 | #661 | 5 | #6,193 |
| 1978 | 198 | #777 | — | — |
| 1977 | 163 | #880 | — | — |
| 1976 | 151 | #880 | — | — |
| 1975 | 140 | #923 | — | — |
| 1974 | 119 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1973 | 121 | #982 | — | — |
| 1972 | 87 | #1,219 | — | — |
| 1971 | 111 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 1970 | 89 | #1,248 | — | — |
| 1969 | 81 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 1968 | 61 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 1967 | 55 | #1,509 | — | — |
| 1966 | 41 | #1,769 | — | — |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,856 | — | — |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,075 | — | — |
| 1963 | 37 | #1,926 | — | — |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,672 | — | — |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,045 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,243 | — | — |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,644 | — | — |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,967 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,474 | — | — |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,892 | — | — |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,805 | — | — |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #3,859 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #3,853 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #3,027 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,250 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,295 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,300 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,549 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,400 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,421 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).