girls:
18.7k births since 1955
#1079 (81st percentile)
boys:
85 births since 1918
#4501 (2nd percentile)
overall:
18.8k births since 1918
#1877 (76th percentile)
The name Chanel is the #1,877 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,813 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 75.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,079 (81.1% percentile) for all time with 18,728 births since 1955. For boys, it ranks #4,501 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 85 births since 1918.
Chanel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (1918 for boys and 1955 for girls). Birth data for Chanel is available in 78 out of the 106 years between 1918 and 2023 (69 years for girls and 14 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Chanel has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1955, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1918 to 1954), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (99.8% girls from 1955 to 2023).
For girls, Chanel reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 58.7% percentile (ranked #352) with 332 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 332 births per million (ranked 58.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Chanel ranks #748 for girls (21.0% percentile) with 117 births per million, which is 35.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Chanel reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #747) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chanel".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Chanel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 91.5% confident that Chanel is pronounced as shuh-NEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is cha-NEHL, at 8.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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