Chantel

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Chantel: Recorded since 1989, it reached #252 in 2002, and it stood at #5,891 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
36years from first to last
#252highest recorded position
11groupings 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	#424
1997	#506
1998	#386
1999	#445
2000	#485
2001	#565
2002	#702
2003	#545
2004	#626
2005	#668
2006	#1983
2007	#2410
2008	#1914
2009	#1596
2010	#1653
2011	#2636
2012	#4171
2013	#3536
2016	#5785
2019	#5591
2024	#5891

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 21 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2007: #842 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2410 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1989–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1989
First recorded at #503 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1989 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1997–2002
Highest recorded position: #252 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2002 (recorded 1997–2002).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5891 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Chantel appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 21 ranked years and 671 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1989.

Chantel across 3 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.

Chantel'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	#424 (1996)	#386 (1998)	#5891 (2024)	21 of 29	671 (1996–2024)	83 (1998)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#503 (1989)	#254 (1999)	#842 (2007)	15 of 19	103 (1989–2007)	12 (2002)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#358 (1997)	#252 (2002)	#252 (2002)	4 of 6	18 (1997–2002)	5 (1998)

Chantel 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 Chantel in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	278	4 of 10	70
2000sbusiest	347	10 of 10	35
2010s	43	6 of 10	7
2020s	3	1 of 10	3

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 35 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2005 and 2006, when recorded births fell by 35, from 46 to 11.

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

Chantel 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 3 regions, from 1989 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #252 in Northern Ireland in 2002.

Chantel'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	#5891	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4171	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2636	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1653	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1596	17	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1914	13	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1983	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#668	46	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#626	48	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#545	56	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#702	37	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#565	49	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#485	61	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#445	67	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#386	83	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#506	54	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#424	74	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	female	#252	5	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#259	5	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#261	5	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#358	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#587	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#340	9	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#403	7	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#278	12	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#278	11	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#284	10	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#254	11	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#319	7	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#394	6	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#333	8	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#411	5	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#457	4	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#503	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
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 3 registrars between 1989 and 2024, ranked in 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #252, first reached in 2002.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 83 births, registered in England and Wales in 1998.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, 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.

Channon · #534, 9y
Chantal · #252, 32y
Chantell · #378, 18y
Chantelle · #78, 42y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Eryk · #252, 22y
Jayde · #252, 28y
Samanta · #252, 30y
Benas · #253, 22y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Leanna · #253, 41y
Hiba · #254, 40y
Orlaigh · #254, 21y
Arman · #249, 38y

Chantel was ranked #252 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2002. 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.

Chantel 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 Chantel without appearing here.

Chantel moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 1995 they stood at #411 and #255 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1996 that had become #333 and #534.
Mona Compare
In 1996 they stood at #516 and #516 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1997 that had become #394 and #576.
Belinda Compare
In 1997 they stood at #394 and #363 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1998 that had become #319 and #498.
Vicki Compare
In 1995 they stood at #411 and #374 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1996 that had become #333 and #471.

Moved ahead of Chantel

Ezra Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3536 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #1689.
Malin Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3536 and #4739 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #2120.
Cameron Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3536 and #4050 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #2367.
Francis Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3536 and #4739 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #3214.

Moved the opposite way to Chantel

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Chantel went from #424 to #5891 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Chantel went from #424 to #5891 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Chantel went from #424 to #5891 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Chantel went from #424 to #5891 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Chantel

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Chantel went from #424 to #5891 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Chantel went from #424 to #5891 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Chantel went from #424 to #5891 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Chantel went from #424 to #5891 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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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 3 regions, from 1989 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #252 in Northern Ireland in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Chantel

Chantel at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Chantel across 3 official records

Chantel by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Chantel appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1980s

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Chantel at a glance

Chantel across 3 official records

Chantel by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Chantel appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Chantel

Chantel and the names beside it

Chantel moved ahead of

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