# Chantal (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/chantal/  
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 | French |
| Meaning | “stone”, “moellon”, “rubblestone” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,476 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 7 / 8,469 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 345, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

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”).

## What it means

Chantal is grouped under mountain.

## 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 | 65 | 2,700 |
| 2012 | 49 | 3,327 |
| 2013 | 52 | 3,135 |
| 2014 | 52 | 3,144 |
| 2015 | 47 | 3,398 |
| 2016 | 28 | 4,885 |
| 2017 | 24 | 5,400 |
| 2018 | 23 | 5,491 |
| 2019 | 20 | 6,026 |
| 2020 | 20 | 5,905 |
| 2021 | 31 | 4,431 |
| 2022 | 15 | 7,348 |
| 2023 | 20 | 6,007 |
| 2024 | 17 | 6,687 |
| 2025 | 19 | 6,167 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 7 | 6,320 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 31 | 779 |
| 2002 | 27 | 861 |
| 2003 | 21 | 1,083 |
| 2004 | 19 | 1,209 |
| 2005 | 17 | 1,343 |
| 2006 | 8 | 2,509 |
| 2007 | 11 | 2,085 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5,545 |
| 2010 | 3 | 5,707 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5,876 |
| 2014 | 5 | 4,003 |
| 2016 | 5 | 4,096 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |

## People named Chantal

- Chantal Akerman, Belgian film director, screenwriter, and educator (1950–2015)
- Chantal Mouffe, Belgian post-marxist political theorist (born 1943)
- Chantal Janzen, Dutch actress and television presenter
- Chantal Lauby, French actress, comedian, film director and screenwriter
- Chantal Kreviazuk, Canadian pop singer
- Chantal van den Broek-Blaak, Dutch cyclist
- Chantal Biya, First Lady of Cameroon and a philanthropist
- Chantal Chaudé de Silans, French chess player (1919–2001)
- Chantal Achterberg, Dutch rower
- Chantal Petitclerc, Canadian para athletics competitor
- Chantal van Landeghem, Canadian swimmer
- Chantal Thomas, French writer

## 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.