Champ

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Champ is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 28 births. Its best rank was 838th, in 1887.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 280.00% of boys
Peak year: 201242 births
Best rank: #838in 1887
Since 1881: 1,264people given the name

Babies named Champ, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

1,264 boys have been named Champ in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2012, with 42 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2010s alone account for 28%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Champ
1880s	11
1890s	18
1900s	11
1910s	161
1920s	104
1930s	63
1940s	84
1950s	68
1960s	29
1970s	23
1980s	6
2000s	183
2010s	349
2020s	154

In 2012, its biggest year

Champ was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2012 were Jacob, Mason, Ethan, Noah and William. See all of 2012.

Names that rose and fell with Champ

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.