girls:
4k births since 1961
#2746 (52nd percentile)
boys:
33 births since 1974
#4553 (1st percentile)
overall:
4k births since 1961
#4352 (44th percentile)
The name Chante is the #4,352 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,988 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 43.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 43.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,746 (52.0% percentile) for all time with 3,955 births since 1961. For boys, it ranks #4,553 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 33 births since 1974.
Chante first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for girls and 1974 for boys). Birth data for Chante is available in 56 out of the 62 years between 1961 and 2022 (56 years for girls and 5 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 Chante has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Chante reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 35.2% percentile (ranked #561) with 164 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 164 births per million (ranked 35.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Chante reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #678) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1980.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chante".
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Our model has identified 13 different pronunciations for the name Chante. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 17.8% confident that Chante is pronounced as shahn-TAY, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shahnt, at 17.8% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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