Chanel

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Chanel: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Chanel: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #307, and it stood at #2,574 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
39times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#307highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#307
1997	#325
1998	#374
1999	#334
2000	#446
2001	#412
2002	#364
2003	#365
2004	#346
2005	#358
2006	#349
2007	#429
2008	#545
2009	#601
2010	#608
2011	#702
2012	#639
2013	#626
2014	#859
2015	#984
2016	#897
2017	#915
2018	#1436
2019	#1349
2020	#1687
2021	#1785
2022	#2325
2023	#2201
2024	#2574

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2018: #896 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1436 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #307 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #307 among girls in England and Wales, in 1996 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2574 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Chanel appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,843 births with the name.

Chanel across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Chanel's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#307 (1996)	#307 (1996)	#2574 (2024)	29 of 29	1,843 (1996–2024)	124 (2006)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#414 (2004)	#414 (2004)	#896 (2018)	10 of 15	47 (2004–2018)	7 (2004)

Chanel by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Chanel in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	405	4 of 10	101
2000sbusiest	916	10 of 10	92
2010s	456	10 of 10	46
2020s	66	5 of 10	13

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 92 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1999 and 2000, when recorded births fell by 30, from 98 to 68.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Chanel appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #307 in England and Wales in 1996.

Chanel's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2574	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2325	11	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1785	16	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1687	17	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1349	23	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1436	22	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#915	41	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#897	41	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#984	36	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#859	44	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#626	65	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#639	65	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#702	55	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#608	64	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#601	63	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#545	70	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#429	95	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#349	124	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#358	112	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#346	112	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#365	101	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#364	96	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#412	75	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#446	68	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#334	98	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#374	86	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#325	105	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#307	116	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#579	6	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#663	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#464	7	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	5	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#414	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #307, first reached in 1996.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 124 births, registered in England and Wales in 2006.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 8 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Chance · #878, 29y
Chandler · #342, 24y
Chanelle · #277, 27y
Chani · #1977, 23y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Gintaras · #307, 28y
Hillary · #307, 33y
Kaylum · #306, 30y
Al · #305, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Brandan · #307, 21y
Lyall · #307, 20y
Munro · #307, 11y
Cj · #306, 23y

Chanel was ranked #307 in England and Wales · Girls in 1996. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Chanel and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Chanel without appearing here.

Chanel moved ahead of

Sinead Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2201 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #3695.
Tayla Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2201 and #1774 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #3318.
Brittany Compare
In 2000 they stood at #446 and #275 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #412 and #871.
Katrina Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2325 and #1767 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2201 and #2504.

Moved ahead of Chanel

Jane Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1785 and #2341 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2325 and #1023.
Paula Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2201 and #2504 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #1491.
Mathilde Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1785 and #1962 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2325 and #1245.
Rory Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1785 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2325 and #1452.

Moved the opposite way to Chanel

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Chanel went from #307 to #2574 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Chanel went from #307 to #2574 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Chanel went from #307 to #2574 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Chanel went from #307 to #2574 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Chanel

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Chanel went from #307 to #2574 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Chanel went from #307 to #2574 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Chanel went from #307 to #2574 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Chanel went from #307 to #2574 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #307 in England and Wales in 1996. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Chanel

Chanel at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Chanel across 2 official records

Chanel by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Chanel appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Chanel moved ahead of

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Chanel at a glance

Chanel across 2 official records

Chanel by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Chanel appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Chanel

Chanel and the names beside it

Chanel moved ahead of

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