Names/C

Chandler

boys’ name · 78%girls’ name · 22%FallingCompare

Chandler is ranked 738th among boys in 2024 (348 births). Its best rank was 151st, in 1999.

Rank in 2024
#738down 51 from 2023
Births in 2024
3480.02% of boys
Peak year
19992,395 births
Best rank
#151in 1999
Since 1900
46,235people given the name
Babies named Chandler, by year of birthboysgirls
06251.3k1.9k2.5k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

36,147 boys have been named Chandler in the United States since 1900, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1999, with 2,395 births — 0.12% of all boys recorded that year.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 421 → 738).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2000, and the 1990s alone account for 36%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Chandler is used for both sexes: 22% of its bearers are girls (10,088), most of them born around 1995.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Chandler
1900s17
1910s193
1920s278
1930s219
1940s205
1950s230
1960s393
1970s712
1980s1,418
1990s12,968
2000s11,225
2010s6,170
2020s2,119

In 1999, its biggest year

Chandler was the 151st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1999 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Nicholas. See all of 1999.

Names that rose and fell with Chandler

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.