Chuck
Chuck is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 217th, in 1961.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 19611,285 births
- Best rank
- #217in 1961
- Since 1914
- 17,864people given the name
The story in the numbers
17,864 boys have been named Chuck in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 1,285 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 1,285 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1961, and the 1960s alone account for 43%. It has spent 48 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Chuck | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 24 | |
| 1920s | 193 | |
| 1930s | 663 | |
| 1940s | 2,349 | |
| 1950s | 4,113 | |
| 1960s | 7,615 | |
| 1970s | 1,880 | |
| 1980s | 576 | |
| 1990s | 225 | |
| 2000s | 112 | |
| 2010s | 87 | |
| 2020s | 27 |
In 1961, its biggest year
Chuck was the 217th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1961 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Chuck
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.