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How popular is the name Chanel?
Births per year, rank history and how many Chanels are alive today.
Chanel (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 5927th in 2025 and given to 3 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2006, when 124 babies were given the name, the 349th most popular that year. It has declined since 2006; the 2025 figure is roughly 2% of its peak. Chanel is one spelling of a name also recorded as Chanell, Chanelle and Shanelle; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Chanel you are most likely to meet is around 19 years old. Half of all Chanels born in England and Wales are between 19 and 32, and there are at least 5,300 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 1.7% chance that at least one of them will be called Chanel.
How many babies are named Chanel each year?
Includes all spellings: Chanel, Chanell, Chanelle, Shanelle. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Chanel spelling rank?
Where does the Chanell spelling rank?
Where does the Chanelle spelling rank?
Where does the Shanelle spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Chanel most popular?
Chanel peaked in 2007, when 254 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Chanel?
At least 5,300 people named Chanel in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Chanel?
Most living Chanels are between 19 and 32; the most common age is about 19.
Is Chanel becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2007 peak.