Chantell
3,496 recorded births · active 1958–2020
Compare Chantell →Living-age distribution
The median living Chantell is 40. If you meet a Chantell, there's about a 70% chance they're between 29 and 53 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Chantell: 1991. Down 100% from peak.
Gender balance
Chantell is almost always given to female babies — 99.9% female.
Rarity
Chantell ranks #5,331 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Geographic fingerprint
Chantells are 0.7x more common in the West than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Chantell's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Chantell's modeled peak was #1,787 in 1976 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Not enough continuous recent history to project a peak rank.
Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Chantell hasn't shown up in SSA records since 2020 — fewer than 5 babies have gotten the name in any year since, which is below what the SSA even reports.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Chantell isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Chantell enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.