Chantz

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 15 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
15
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Chantz by the numbers

Chantz was given to 15 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 68 babies in 1997, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Chantz

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Chantz. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Chancefortune, luck; occupational name1,359 in the US (2017)
  • Chantalfrom a stony place; stone24 in the US (2017)
  • Chaneyoak grove dweller; occupational surname22 in the US (2017)
  • Chanangracious or merciful5 in the US (2017)
  • Chanse14 in the US (2017)
  • Chavez10 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Chantz

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