Meaning and history
From a French surname meaning either “channel,” for someone who lived near a water channel, or “jug, jar, bottle,” for a maker of jugs, Chanel has been used as an American given name since the 1970s, influenced by the Chanel brand of women’s clothing and perfume, which was named for the French fashion designer Coco Chanel (1883–1971).
20062006: 287 births, rank #921
2007: 318 births, rank #880
2008: 380 births, rank #772
2009: 354 births, rank #799
2010: 333 births, rank #813
20112011: 320 births, rank #827
2012: 373 births, rank #746
2013: 382 births, rank #722
2014: 453 births, rank #630
2015: 417 births, rank #684
20162016: 450 births, rank #651
2017: 391 births, rank #728
2018: 354 births, rank #770
2019: 355 births, rank #781
2020: 391 births, rank #715
20212021: 333 births, rank #829
2022: 289 births, rank #937
2023: 206 births, rank #1,168
2024: 192 births, rank #1,223
20252025: 170 births, rank #1,309
Chanel moved from #829 to #937 for girls between 2021 and 2022. Its highest annual birth count came in 1991, with 676 births.