Meaning not yet researched.
Chad: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 96 in 2025. Its best rank was #25 in 1973.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #25 in 1973; #1,701 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Chad in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,701 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1973, at #25.
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Chad: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 96 boys in 2025. Peak: #25 in 1973 · most boys in one year: 13,392 (1972).
In 2025, 96 US boys were named Chad, making it the 1,701st most common boys’ name of the year, up 109 places from #1,810 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 90 boys named Chad in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #25, reached in 1973. The most boys given the name in a single year was 13,392, in 1972. For comparison, it was #760 in 2015 and #838 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chad in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 11 babies. In all, 241,767 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 114,098 babies named Chad.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,661 US boys were named Chad; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 291. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,792 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Chad ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #600 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Chadwick (13,298 babies since 1880) and Chadd (2,456 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Chade and Khade are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Chade (155), Khade (64).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Chad in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 7 | #600 | #334 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,123 | #563 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,135 | #537 |
| New York | 7 | #1,441 | #653 |
| Texas | 10 | #1,673 | #819 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 96 | #1,701 |
| 2024 | — | — | 90 | #1,810 |
| 2023 | — | — | 108 | #1,611 |
| 2022 | — | — | 132 | #1,404 |
| 2021 | — | — | 158 | #1,218 |
| 2020 | — | — | 150 | #1,241 |
| 2019 | — | — | 175 | #1,118 |
| 2018 | — | — | 241 | #899 |
| 2017 | — | — | 220 | #948 |
| 2016 | — | — | 291 | #799 |
| 2015 | — | — | 314 | #760 |
| 2014 | — | — | 346 | #705 |
| 2013 | — | — | 358 | #674 |
| 2012 | — | — | 434 | #589 |
| 2011 | — | — | 439 | #570 |
| 2010 | — | — | 463 | #545 |
| 2009 | — | — | 529 | #509 |
| 2008 | — | — | 613 | #452 |
| 2007 | — | — | 659 | #431 |
| 2006 | — | — | 799 | #373 |
| 2005 | — | — | 767 | #377 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,522 | 828 | #343 |
| 2003 | — | — | 861 | #334 |
| 2002 | — | — | 928 | #309 |
| 2001 | — | — | 1,079 | #283 |
| 2000 | — | — | 1,453 | #236 |
| 1999 | — | — | 1,585 | #215 |
| 1998 | — | — | 1,808 | #186 |
| 1997 | — | — | 1,952 | #174 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,897 | 2,168 | #161 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,804 | 2,434 | #144 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,774 | 2,730 | #130 |
| 1993 | — | — | 3,143 | #114 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,630 | 3,356 | #108 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,477 | 3,585 | #104 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,648 | 4,351 | #85 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,040 | 4,723 | #74 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,405 | 5,299 | #65 |
| 1987 | 39 | #2,581 | 5,622 | #63 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,857 | 6,026 | #59 |
| 1985 | 50 | #2,107 | 6,466 | #57 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,520 | 7,062 | #51 |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,101 | 7,390 | #49 |
| 1982 | 51 | #2,030 | 7,909 | #48 |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,089 | 8,412 | #47 |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,659 | 10,142 | #39 |
| 1979 | 56 | #1,878 | 10,161 | #38 |
| 1978 | 64 | #1,655 | 10,107 | #35 |
| 1977 | 56 | #1,803 | 10,831 | #34 |
| 1976 | 69 | #1,499 | 11,766 | #29 |
| 1975 | 63 | #1,574 | 12,838 | #27 |
| 1974 | 64 | #1,521 | 12,788 | #26 |
| 1973 | 67 | #1,445 | 12,886 | #25 |
| 1972 | 49 | #1,773 | 13,392 | #25 |
| 1971 | 51 | #1,756 | 12,137 | #29 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,787 | 6,628 | #51 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,219 | 4,060 | #69 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,817 | 2,917 | #104 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,078 | 2,946 | #105 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,924 | 2,201 | #135 |
| 1965 | — | — | 1,172 | #209 |
| 1964 | — | — | 875 | #259 |
| 1963 | — | — | 648 | #309 |
| 1962 | — | — | 464 | #374 |
| 1961 | — | — | 364 | #416 |
| 1960 | — | — | 255 | #494 |
| 1959 | — | — | 247 | #499 |
| 1958 | — | — | 249 | #493 |
| 1957 | — | — | 252 | #491 |
| 1956 | — | — | 221 | #510 |
| 1955 | — | — | 235 | #477 |
| 1954 | — | — | 202 | #513 |
| 1953 | — | — | 152 | #584 |
| 1952 | — | — | 118 | #644 |
| 1951 | — | — | 95 | #712 |
| 1950 | — | — | 66 | #838 |
| 1949 | — | — | 56 | #925 |
| 1948 | — | — | 55 | #934 |
| 1947 | — | — | 78 | #779 |
| 1946 | — | — | 57 | #869 |
| 1945 | — | — | 40 | #1,007 |
| 1944 | — | — | 36 | #1,110 |
| 1943 | — | — | 39 | #1,089 |
| 1942 | — | — | 41 | #1,058 |
| 1941 | — | — | 26 | #1,302 |
| 1940 | — | — | 23 | #1,408 |
| 1939 | — | — | 21 | #1,459 |
| 1938 | — | — | 18 | #1,621 |
| 1937 | — | — | 15 | #1,834 |
| 1936 | — | — | 18 | #1,596 |
| 1935 | — | — | 22 | #1,457 |
| 1934 | — | — | 15 | #1,872 |
| 1933 | — | — | 10 | #2,396 |
| 1932 | — | — | 17 | #1,785 |
| 1931 | — | — | 13 | #2,117 |
| 1930 | — | — | 8 | #3,063 |
| 1929 | — | — | 11 | #2,469 |
| 1928 | — | — | 8 | #3,119 |
| 1927 | — | — | 10 | #2,730 |
| 1926 | — | — | 7 | #3,443 |
| 1925 | — | — | 10 | #2,782 |
| 1924 | — | — | 14 | #2,250 |
| 1923 | — | — | 10 | #2,796 |
| 1922 | — | — | 15 | #2,157 |
| 1921 | — | — | 8 | #3,257 |
| 1920 | — | — | 10 | #2,802 |
| 1919 | — | — | 10 | #2,704 |
| 1918 | — | — | 11 | #2,574 |
| 1917 | — | — | 13 | #2,199 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #3,916 |
| 1914 | — | — | 11 | #1,995 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).