Chánnel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chánnel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): S England: esp. Somerset. nickname for a singer, from Parisian Old French chant, Norman and Picard Old French cant ‘singing, song’. Compare Chanter , Cantor .
- USUnited States1 in 282K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 746K
- CLChile≈1 in 305K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 191 (measured from records)
- 1 in 282K (inferred from the name graph)
1,180 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Channel in US United States, GB United Kingdom.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): S England: esp. Somerset. nickname for a singer, from Parisian Old French chant, Norman and Picard Old French cant ‘singing, song’. Compare Chanter , Cantor .
Sources 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chánnel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,180 | 1 in 282K | 1.4K | Channel | 191 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 746K | — | Channel | 46 |
| CL Chile | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 305K | 4 | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 1 | — | 16 |
| NL Netherlands | 49 | 1 in 353K | 49 | — | 6 |
| CR Costa Rica | 7 | 1 in 728K | 7 | — | — |
1,180 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chánnel mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): S England: esp. Somerset. nickname for a singer, from Parisian Old French chant, Norman and Picard Old French cant ‘singing, song’. Compare Chanter , Cantor . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 1 other source.
- Is Chánnel a male or female name?
- Chánnel is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Chánnel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Chánnel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled channel.
- Where is Chánnel most common?
- Chánnel is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 282 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Chánnel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,180 people named Chánnel in 2020, about 1 in 282 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ch%C3%A1nnelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chánnel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.