Chantal

C3H4A1N1T1A1L1

proper noun

A female given name from French.

OriginFrench Chantal →
Less commonScrabble 12
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A female given name from French.

Origin

  1. FrenchChantal
  2. EnglishChantal

Borrowed from French Chantal in the 1960s, from the surname of a French saint Jeanne de Chantal, actually a Baroness of Chantal, a place name in France from Old Occitan cantal (“stone, moellon, rubblestone”).

More words from French

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

canthalchalant
Cite this entry
APA

Chantal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chantal

MLA

“Chantal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chantal. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Chantal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chantal.

Source: Chantal on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.