Chantal (first name)
Chantal is a female given name .
Origin of the first name
The name is probably derived from St. Johanna Franziska von Chantal .
The family is probably named after the small hamlet Chantal , in the north of Monthelon in Burgundy.
The name of the hamlet can be traced back to the French form of the Occitan word "cantal", which probably comes from the ancient Provencal and means "stone" or "wall stone" or "corner stone". The Occitan word, on the other hand, is said to come from the Latin "canthus". In Rome, “canthus” was the name given to the iron ring around a wheel, the wheel rail . The word canthus is originally derived from the Greek κανθός.
Another, uncertain interpretation of the name brings it in connection with an area of this name in the Périgord region east of Bordeaux. It is probably the name of a mountain or a plateau, but the word itself may also mean “mountain”.
Remembrance day
The feast day of St. Johanna Franziska von Chantal is August 12th (before the revision of the liturgical calendar it was December 12th).
Name bearers
- Chantal Akerman (1950–2015), Belgian film director
- Chantal Biya (* 1970), Première Dame of Cameroon
- Chantal Blaak (* 1989), Dutch cyclist
- Chantal Botts (* 1976), South African badminton player
- Chantal Bourbaren (* 1967), Swiss ski racer
- Chantal Brunner (* 1970), New Zealand athlete
- Chantal Chaudé de Silans (1919–2001), French chess player
- Chantal Chawaf (* 1943), French writer
- Chantal Dällenbach (* 1962), French long-distance runner
- Chantal de Freitas (1967-2013), German actress
- Chantal Dubs (* 1990), Swiss actress
- Chantal Galladé (* 1972), Swiss politician
- Chantal Goya (* 1942), French actress and singer
- Chantal Groot (* 1982), Dutch swimmer
- Chantal Hediger (* 1974), Swiss painter, presenter and actress
- Chantal Janzen (* 1979), Dutch actress and television presenter
- Chantal Jouanno (* 1969), French politician (Union des démocrates et indépendants | UDI)
- Chantal Kreviazuk (* 1973), Canadian singer and songwriter
- Chantal Laboreur (* 1990), German volleyball and beach volleyball player
- Chantal Lauby (* 1948), French actress, director and screenwriter
- Chantal Maillard (* 1951), Belgian-Spanish author
- Chantal Mouffe (* 1943), Belgian political scientist
- Chantal Neuwirth (* 1948), French actress
- Chantal Pelletier (* 1949), French actress and writer
- Chantal Petitclerc (* 1969), Canadian disabled athlete
- Chantal Schneidereit (* 1985), German ice hockey player
- Chantal Škamlová (* 1993), Slovak tennis player
- Chantal Vandierendonck (* 1965), Dutch wheelchair tennis player
- Marie-Chantal Miller (* 1968), Princess of Greece and Denmark
Chantel:
- Chantel Jones (* 1988), American soccer goalkeeper
Chantelle:
- Chantelle Newbery (* 1977), Australian athlete ( diving )
variants
- Chantall
- Chantalle
- Chantel
- Chantelle
Bad reputation of the first name
Children and adolescents with this first name were often the target of derogatory jokes in Germany in the cohorts in which it appeared very frequently. The phenomenon is one of the objects of investigation of Chantalism . Sociological studies were published under this name, among other things, which uncovered prejudices against the namesake.
Individual evidence
- ^ Toponymie generale de la France , Volume 1 by E. Nègre google.books
- ↑ Georges-1913 zeno.org/canthus
- ↑ http://www.jtosti.com/noms jtosti.com