Let \(\mathbb {F}_{q}\) be a finite field of even characteristic and \(\alpha \in \mathbb {F}_{q}^{*}\) . For any non-constant monic square-free polynomial \(A \in \mathbb {F}_{q}[t]\) , the polynomial \(X^2+AX+\alpha \) is irreducible over \(\mathbb {F}_{q}(t)\) and it defines a real quadratic extension \(K_A\) of \(\mathbb {F}_{q}(t)\) , which we call \(\alpha \) -Chowla type. In this paper we investigate the distribution of the class numbers \(h_{A}\) over real quadratic function fields \(K_{A}\) of Chowla type by comparing the distribution of \(L(1,\chi _{A})\) to that of a random Euler product \(L(1,\mathbb {X})\) .