Chalmer
Chalmer is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 720th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191856 births
- Best rank
- #720in 1881
- Since 1881
- 1,427people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,427 boys have been named Chalmer in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 56 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 56 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 27%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Chalmer | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 30 | |
| 1890s | 40 | |
| 1900s | 57 | |
| 1910s | 326 | |
| 1920s | 391 | |
| 1930s | 249 | |
| 1940s | 153 | |
| 1950s | 75 | |
| 1960s | 54 | |
| 1970s | 36 | |
| 1980s | 10 | |
| 2000s | 6 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Chalmer was the 890th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Chalmer
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Orvalpeak 1918
- Orvillepeak 1920
- Herschelpeak 1921
- Clementpeak 1918
- Vernerpeak 1917
- Waldopeak 1915
- Wilburpeak 1918
- Clairpeak 1923
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.