In 2025, 19 US girls were named Chantal, making it the 6,167th most common girls’ name of the year, up 520 places from #6,687 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 17 girls named Chantal in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #553, reached in 1990. That year also had the most girls given the name: 428. For comparison, it was #3,398 in 2015 and #3,251 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chantal in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 9 babies. In all, 8,476 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,739 babies named Chantal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 217 US girls were named Chantal; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 31. In 2025 that was about 1 in 84,593 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Chantelle (6,690 babies since 1880), Chantel (14,997 babies since 1880) and Chantell (3,496 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Chantalle are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.