# Chanel (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/chanel/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | Nellie |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 19,182 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 85 / 19,097 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,846, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From French Chanel. As a given name, principally after Coco Chanel.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 320 | 827 |
| 2012 | 373 | 746 |
| 2013 | 382 | 722 |
| 2014 | 453 | 630 |
| 2015 | 417 | 685 |
| 2016 | 450 | 652 |
| 2017 | 391 | 728 |
| 2018 | 354 | 772 |
| 2019 | 355 | 781 |
| 2020 | 391 | 715 |
| 2021 | 333 | 829 |
| 2022 | 289 | 937 |
| 2023 | 206 | 1,169 |
| 2024 | 192 | 1,224 |
| 2025 | 170 | 1,311 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 7 | 3,421 |
| 1920 | 5 | 4,400 |
| 1924 | 7 | 3,549 |
| 1925 | 5 | 4,300 |
| 1927 | 5 | 4,295 |
| 1928 | 5 | 4,250 |
| 1929 | 8 | 3,027 |
| 1931 | 5 | 3,853 |
| 1932 | 5 | 3,859 |
| 1979 | 5 | 6,193 |
| 1981 | 6 | 5,612 |
| 1989 | 11 | 4,561 |
| 1990 | 5 | 8,315 |
| 1996 | 6 | 8,109 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 55 | 702 |
| 2012 | 65 | 639 |
| 2013 | 65 | 626 |
| 2014 | 44 | 859 |
| 2015 | 36 | 984 |
| 2016 | 41 | 897 |
| 2017 | 41 | 915 |
| 2018 | 22 | 1,436 |
| 2019 | 23 | 1,349 |
| 2020 | 17 | 1,687 |
| 2021 | 16 | 1,785 |
| 2022 | 11 | 2,325 |
| 2023 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2024 | 10 | 2,574 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,927 |

## People named Chanel

- Chanel Preston, former American pornographic actress
- Chanel Iman, American model (born 1990)
- Chanel West Coast, American television personality, rapper and singer
- Chanel Cresswell, British actress
- Chanel Miller, American writer
- Chanel Camryn, American pornographic actress
- Chanel Santini, American pornographic ex-actor

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.