Chanel Girl
How popular is Chanel?
#1,309 girl name in 2025
170 baby girls were named Chanel in the US in 2025, making it the 1309th most popular girl name.
Chanel popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,309 for girls (▼ 86 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 170 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-59% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #684 in 2015, #715 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1991 (676 girls) |
| Highest rank | #380 in 1991 |
| First recorded | 1955 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Chanel counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Chanel family of names ranked #1,017 for girls in 2025 (#952 the year before), with 197 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Chanel is most popular
Babies named Chanel per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Georgia: 0.3 per 1,000 (64 girls)
- Florida: 0.3 per 1,000 (112 girls)
- Nevada: 0.2 per 1,000 (11 girls)
- Mississippi: 0.2 per 1,000 (11 girls)
- Arizona: 0.2 per 1,000 (32 girls)
Chanel by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 39 | #3,618 |
| 1960s | 385 | #1,242 |
| 1970s | 1,443 | #660 |
| 1980s | 4,239 | #427 |
| 1990s | 4,754 | #380 |
| 2000s | 2,828 | #772 |
| 2010s | 3,828 | #630 |
| 2020s | 1,581 | #715 |
Girl names about as popular as Chanel
Questions
- Is Chanel a boy or girl name?
- Chanel is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Chanel were girls.
- How popular is the name Chanel?
- 170 baby girls were named Chanel in the US in 2025, making it the 1309th most popular girl name.
- When was Chanel most popular?
- Chanel peaked in 1991, when 676 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #380 in 1991.
- How many people are named Chanel?
- 19,182 babies have been named Chanel in the US since 1880. We estimate about 18,768 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 30.
- Where is Chanel most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Chanel was most common in Georgia, at 0.3 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.