Chauncey
Chauncey is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 42 births. Its best rank was 284th, in 1890.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 420.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1981173 births
- Best rank
- #284in 1890
- Since 1880
- 10,169people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,661 boys have been named Chauncey in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1981, with 173 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1977, and the 1980s alone account for 15%. It has spent 99 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 508 girls have also been given it, 5.0% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Chauncey | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 253 | |
| 1890s | 261 | |
| 1900s | 178 | |
| 1910s | 548 | |
| 1920s | 682 | |
| 1930s | 492 | |
| 1940s | 393 | |
| 1950s | 611 | |
| 1960s | 739 | |
| 1970s | 1,086 | |
| 1980s | 1,410 | |
| 1990s | 1,159 | |
| 2000s | 1,061 | |
| 2010s | 610 | |
| 2020s | 178 |
In 1981, its biggest year
Chauncey was the 648th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1981 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Jason and David. See all of 1981.
Names that rose and fell with Chauncey
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Oscarpeak 2006
- Antonpeak 1915
- Alonzopeak 2022
- Christpeak 1923
- Corneliuspeak 1974
- Zebpeak 1979
- Jesspeak 1915
- Youngpeak 1991
Other spellings in the data
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.