Meaning not yet researched.
Chanelle: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #880 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #880 in 1991; #5,960 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Chanelle in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,960 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #880.
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Chanelle: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 girls in 2025. Peak: #880 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 224 (1991).
In 2025, 20 US girls were named Chanelle, making it the 5,960th most common girls’ name of the year, down 629 places from #5,331 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 24 girls named Chanelle in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #880, reached in 1991. That year also had the most girls given the name: 224. For comparison, it was #2,414 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chanelle in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 5 babies. In all, 5,223 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,490 babies named Chanelle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 386 US girls were named Chanelle; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 68. In 2025 that was about 1 in 80,363 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Chanel (19,182 babies since 1880) and Chanell (2,897 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Channelle, Chanielle and Chanille 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Channelle (275), Chanielle (16), Chanille (12).
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 Chanelle in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,960 | — | — |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,331 | — | — |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,586 | — | — |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,051 | — | — |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,430 | — | — |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,698 | — | — |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,241 | — | — |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,627 | — | — |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,934 | — | — |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,601 | — | — |
| 2015 | 76 | #2,414 | — | — |
| 2014 | 94 | #2,073 | — | — |
| 2013 | 87 | #2,157 | — | — |
| 2012 | 112 | #1,812 | — | — |
| 2011 | 68 | #2,619 | — | — |
| 2010 | 89 | #2,185 | — | — |
| 2009 | 117 | #1,832 | — | — |
| 2008 | 93 | #2,159 | — | — |
| 2007 | 104 | #1,973 | — | — |
| 2006 | 92 | #2,111 | — | — |
| 2005 | 80 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 2004 | 76 | #2,293 | — | — |
| 2003 | 82 | #2,129 | — | — |
| 2002 | 80 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 2001 | 84 | #2,014 | — | — |
| 2000 | 97 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 1999 | 85 | #1,861 | — | — |
| 1998 | 102 | #1,599 | — | — |
| 1997 | 111 | #1,477 | — | — |
| 1996 | 116 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 1995 | 122 | #1,348 | — | — |
| 1994 | 148 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 1993 | 182 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 1992 | 194 | #982 | — | — |
| 1991 | 224 | #880 | — | — |
| 1990 | 206 | #926 | — | — |
| 1989 | 196 | #919 | — | — |
| 1988 | 186 | #916 | — | — |
| 1987 | 180 | #921 | — | — |
| 1986 | 141 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1985 | 130 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 1984 | 140 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 1983 | 137 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1982 | 93 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 1981 | 105 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 1980 | 97 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 1979 | 86 | #1,422 | — | — |
| 1978 | 64 | #1,656 | — | — |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,779 | — | — |
| 1976 | 48 | #1,884 | — | — |
| 1975 | 35 | #2,325 | — | — |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,505 | — | — |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,578 | — | — |
| 1972 | 38 | #2,060 | — | — |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,074 | — | — |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,789 | — | — |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,220 | — | — |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,025 | — | — |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,365 | — | — |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,925 | — | — |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,239 | — | — |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,391 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,724 | — | — |
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).