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Chanel

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Chanel is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 192 births. Its best rank was 381st, in 1991.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
1920.01% of girls
Peak year
1991676 births
Best rank
#381in 1991
Since 1955
18,926people given the name
Babies named Chanel, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

18,926 girls have been named Chanel in the United States since 1955, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1991, with 676 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1995, and the 1990s alone account for 25%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Chanel
1950s39
1960s385
1970s1,443
1980s4,239
1990s4,754
2000s2,828
2010s3,828
2020s1,410

In 1991, its biggest year

Chanel was the 381st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1991 were Ashley, Jessica, Brittany, Amanda and Samantha. See all of 1991.

Names that rose and fell with Chanel

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.