Chantal Girl
How popular is Chantal?
#6,115 girl name in 2025
19 baby girls were named Chantal in the US in 2025, making it the 6115th most popular girl name.
Chantal popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #6,115 for girls (▲ 524 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 19 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-60% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #3,389 in 2015, #5,846 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1990 (428 girls) |
| Highest rank | #552 in 1990 |
| First recorded | 1947 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Chantal counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Chantel family of names ranked #2,411 for girls in 2025 (#2,262 the year before), with 48 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 Chantal is most popular
Babies named Chantal per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
Chantal by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 36 | #2,254 |
| 1950s | 140 | #2,151 |
| 1960s | 609 | #951 |
| 1970s | 937 | #935 |
| 1980s | 2,183 | #580 |
| 1990s | 2,739 | #552 |
| 2000s | 1,283 | #1,178 |
| 2010s | 420 | #2,694 |
| 2020s | 122 | #4,409 |
Girl names about as popular as Chantal
Questions
- Is Chantal a boy or girl name?
- Chantal is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Chantal were girls.
- How popular is the name Chantal?
- 19 baby girls were named Chantal in the US in 2025, making it the 6115th most popular girl name.
- When was Chantal most popular?
- Chantal peaked in 1990, when 428 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #552 in 1990.
- How many people are named Chantal?
- 8,476 babies have been named Chantal in the US since 1880. We estimate about 8,214 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 36.
- Where is Chantal most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Chantal was most common in Florida, at 0.0 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.