Chantal
\ʃɑ̃.tal\♀French girl's name
A French girl's name of Old French origin, first recorded around Siècle à préciser.
At a glance
| Gender | Feminine |
|---|---|
| Origin | Old French |
| First recorded | Siècle à préciser |
| Pronunciation | \ʃɑ̃.tal\ |
| Also spelled | Cantal, Chantale |
| Compound names | Chantal-Marie, Marie-Chantal, marie-chantal, marie-chantalerie, Marie-Chantale |
Origin and meaning
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”).
Where it is mostly given
- France
- Belgium
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Switzerland
Around the world
- ItalianSciantal
Source: Wiktionnaire (CC BY-SA 4.0). Recording: Mecanautes (France), Lingua Libre / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).