Chandler
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
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
By decade
| Decade | boys named Chandler | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 17 | |
| 1910s | 193 | |
| 1920s | 278 | |
| 1930s | 219 | |
| 1940s | 205 | |
| 1950s | 230 | |
| 1960s | 393 | |
| 1970s | 712 | |
| 1980s | 1,418 | |
| 1990s | 12,968 | |
| 2000s | 11,225 | |
| 2010s | 6,170 | |
| 2020s | 2,119 |
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.
- Rayquanpeak 1996
- Malikpeak 1996
- Tyriqpeak 1998
- Tyriquepeak 1998
- Tyrekpeak 1998
- Tyreekpeak 1998
- Justispeak 1996
- Jacquezpeak 1998
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.