Meaning and history
From a French surname derived from a place name meaning “stony,” Chantal was originally given in honor of Saint Jeanne-Françoise de Chantal, founder of the Visitation Order in the 17th century, and later came to be associated with the French word chant, meaning “song.”
20062006: 109 births, rank #1,865
2007: 98 births, rank #2,071
2008: 109 births, rank #1,927
2009: 83 births, rank #2,338
2010: 60 births, rank #2,870
20112011: 65 births, rank #2,695
2012: 49 births, rank #3,314
2013: 52 births, rank #3,123
2014: 52 births, rank #3,137
2015: 47 births, rank #3,389
20162016: 28 births, rank #4,850
2017: 24 births, rank #5,338
2018: 23 births, rank #5,454
2019: 20 births, rank #5,986
2020: 20 births, rank #5,850
20212021: 31 births, rank #4,413
2022: 15 births, rank #7,281
2023: 20 births, rank #5,960
2024: 17 births, rank #6,642
20252025: 19 births, rank #6,116
Chantal moved from #911 to #922 for girls between 1997 and 1999. Its highest annual birth count came in 1990, with 428 births.