Chesnel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: origine incertaine
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃnɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chesnel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7M (inferred from the name graph)
5 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
origine incertaine
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chesnel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 9.6M | — | Chesnel | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | 2 |
5 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gérard Chesnelb. 1946FRFrench diplomat
- Sandrine Chesnelb. 1950FRFrench journalist
- Annette Chesnelb. 1964FRFrench politician
- Valérie Chesnelb. 1967FRFrench politician
- Fanny Chesnelb. 1980FRFrench writer and screenwriter
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 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #130,247 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #317,258 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #28,512 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Chesnel mean, and where does it come from?
- origine incertaine Recorded by Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition.
- How do you pronounce Chesnel?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃnɛl/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Chesnel have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 5 people named Chesnel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Chesnel most common?
- Chesnel is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Chesnel?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 5 people named Chesnel in 2024, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chesnelThe 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, “Chesnel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.