Chantal
The girl's name Chantal has been in the national records since 1947, with 8,476 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 6,116th. About 8,200 Chantals are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 35.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Chantal boys named Chantal
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 8,476
- Estimated living today
- 8,200
- Median age today
- 35
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 553rd
- Rank in 2025
- 6,116th
- First recorded
- 1947
- Girls / boys
- 8,469 / 7
How old the living Chantals are
born that year still alive today
Of the 8,476 babies given the name since 1947, about 8,200 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 730 of them are children and 160 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1990 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
Borrowed from French Chantal in the 1960s, from the surname of a French saint Jeanne de Chantal, actually a Baroness of Chantal, a place name in France from Old Occitan cantal (“stone, moellon, rubblestone”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Chantals
- Chantal Akerman (1950–2015)Belgian film director, screenwriter, and educator
- Chantal Mouffe (born 1943)Belgian post-marxist political theorist
- Chantal Janzen (born 1979)Dutch actress and television presenter
- Chantal Goya (born 1942)French actress and singer
- Chantal Lauby (born 1948)French actress, comedian, film director and screenwriter
- Chantal Andere (born 1972)Mexican actress and singer
- Chantal van den Broek-Blaak (born 1989)Dutch cyclist
- Chantal Kreviazuk (born 1974)Canadian pop singer
People named Chantal with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Chantal is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Chantal is most concentrated in California (2.9×), Florida (2.5×), New York (2.0×), New Mexico (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1990
The most popular girls’ names the year Chantal peaked:
Chantal elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Chantal | 232,125 | 3rd |
| Italy girls | Chantal | 1,868 | — |
| Switzerland girls | Chantal | 623 | 67th |
| England and Wales girls | Chantal | 345 | 571st |
| France boys | Chantal | 325 | 298th |
| Poland girls | Chantal | 113 birth registrations | 228th |
| Ireland girls | Chantal | 95 | 252nd |
| Scotland girls | Chantal | 30 | 431st |
| Belgium girls | Chantal | 25 | 869th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Chantal: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Chantal | 562 | 0.045% | 51st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Chantal | 19 | 0.004% | 336th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Chantal | 42 | 0.064% | 34th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Chantal is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.07% of children were given it – 41 of them.
Chantal: rank by region
In 2023, Chantal was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Chantal | 8 | 1 |
In 2020, Chantal was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Chantal | 171 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Chantal among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Chantal | 19,905 | 25,109 |
| the Netherlands boys | Chantal | 12 | 212 |
| Finland girls | Chantal | 41 | 84 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Chantal lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 904 women called Chantal were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Chantal | 53 | 0.128 | 671 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Chantal | 76 | 0.074 | 1,001 |
| Barcelona | Chantal | 199 | 0.065 | 998 |
| Tarragona | Chantal | 28 | 0.064 | 1,128 |
| Balears, Illes | Chantal | 38 | 0.061 | 1,132 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Chantal | 17 | 0.054 | 1,175 |
Listed in 28 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 24 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Chantal against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.