Chantál

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Chantál is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 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, rubble.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 32K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 2.5M
  • SESweden1 in 29K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

10,546 people, 2020

Sources
388 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Chantal in US United States, NL Netherlands, ES Spain and 2 more.

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)

Derivation of Chantál: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Chantál
  1. French Chantalin(measured from records)
  2. Old Occitancantal“stone“stone, moellon, rubblestone”(measured from records)

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”).

Sources 3

  • Wiktionary
  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chantál 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.

Where Chantál is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—10,5461 in 32K11KChantal388
ES Spain—9041 in 55K904Chantal62
SE Sweden—3561 in 29K356Chantal21
PL Poland—2611 in 147K261—1
BR Brazil—1321 in 1.6M132—3
DK Denmark—931 in 63K93Chantal44
GY Guyana—211 in 36K21—4
NL Netherlands#14371 in 2.5M20KChantal114

10,546 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Chantál is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, United States, Canada, Congo - Kinshasa

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho, Kinyarwanda

    Also written Chantal

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Chantál under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Chantál mean, and where does it come from?
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, rubble… Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition and 1 other source.
Is Chantál a male or female name?
Chantál 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 Chantál have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Chantál, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chantal.
Where is Chantál most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chantál is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 29 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Chantál?
In the United States, the national register counted 10,546 people named Chantál in 2020, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
How common is Chantál compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Chantál is the 143rd most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.

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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, “Chantál” — the 143rd most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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