Chauncy
Chauncy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 736th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 197833 births
- Best rank
- #736in 1883
- Since 1883
- 1,290people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,257 boys have been named Chauncy in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1978, with 33 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 1984, and the 1980s alone account for 22%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 33 girls have also been given it, 2.6% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Chauncy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7 | |
| 1890s | 11 | |
| 1900s | 10 | |
| 1910s | 62 | |
| 1920s | 44 | |
| 1930s | 35 | |
| 1940s | 11 | |
| 1950s | 31 | |
| 1960s | 90 | |
| 1970s | 195 | |
| 1980s | 279 | |
| 1990s | 211 | |
| 2000s | 175 | |
| 2010s | 80 | |
| 2020s | 16 |
In 1978, its biggest year
Chauncy was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1978 were Michael, Jason, Christopher, David and James. See all of 1978.
Names that rose and fell with Chauncy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mathewpeak 1990
- Jenspeak 1966
- Andrewpeak 1987
- Jesseepeak 1990
- Schuylerpeak 1993
- Jessepeak 1981
- Matthewspeak 1988
- Chanceypeak 1978
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.