Chantre
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: precentor (person who leads songs or prayers)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tʃant̪ɾe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chantre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- CVCape Verde≈1 in 9.9K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 37K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cape Verde, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
precentor (person who leads songs or prayers)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Chantre is read(measured from records)
Chantre is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish35%
precentor (person who leads songs or prayers)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French35%
singer, songster
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Chantre in English.
- Portuguese12%
chanter (a priest who sings in a chantry)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chantre 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Chantre | 50 |
| FR France | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 100K | 100 | Chantre | 1 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Chantre | 41 |
| BR Brazil | — | 247 | 1 in 857K | 247 | Chantre | 43 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Chantre | 6 |
| CV Cape Verde | #121 | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | 1 | Chantre | 14 |
| LU Luxembourg | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Chantre | 3 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); CNE — Listas concorrentes (Eleicoes Legislativas 2026). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Chantre is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of chaunterie
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Auguste Chantreb. 1836CHSwiss clergyman
- Ernest Chantreb. 1843FRFrench anthropologist, naturalist and archaeologist (1843-1924)
- Bellonie Chantreb. 1866FRFrench writer and explorer
- Maria de Lourdes Chantreb. 1929CVcape verdean gastronomist
- Josefina Chantreb. 1942CVCape Verdean anti-colonialist and independence fighter
- Benoît Chantreb. 1963FRFrench literary critic, playwright and essayist
- Teófilo Chantreb. 1964CVCape Verdean singer
- Christophe Chantreb. 1967FRFrench politician
- Brice Chantreb. 1975FRFrench politician
- Zoé Chantreb. 1981FRFrench film director
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 247 | #30,929 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 112 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 100 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 99 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 96 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 96 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 86 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 75 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 65 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 58 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 42 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chantre mean, and where does it come from?
- precentor (person who leads songs or prayers) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Chantre?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃant̪ɾe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Chantre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Chantre in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chantre.
- How common is the name Chantre?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 247 people named Chantre, about 1 in 857 thousand residents.
- How common is Chantre compared with other names?
- In Cape Verde, Chantre is the 121st most common surname of 2,258 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chantreThe 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, “Chantre” — the 121st most common surname in Cape Verde. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.