Chantal is a girl's name of French origin meaning “stone.” In 2024 it was given to 17 girls in the United States.
Chantal at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
French
Meaning
“stone”
About the name Chantal
Chantal belongs to the French tradition. Its meaning — “stone” — is the sense carried by its French roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Chantal first appears in Social Security records in 1947. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #553 in 1990, and in 2024 17 babies received the name — 8,446 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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