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All around the world, Шанел (Chanel , Шанел ) is a common unisex forename. The given name Шанел is characteristic of the Dominican Republic, where it is quite a common unisex name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is quite a common largely masculine, but seldom feminine name, and Cameroon, where it is quite a rare gender-neutral name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is the most numerous in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United States, and Cameroon. Also, Шанел is the last name as well as the forename.
Шанел is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Chanel Oberlin , the fictional character from the Fox series Scream Queens; Chanel Press Attache , the character in Olivier Assayas' film Clouds of Sils Maria; Chanel , the theatrical character in the play "Eight Women" and Chanel , the character from 2003 film 'The Cheetah Girls'.