In 2025, 25 US boys were named Chadwick, making it the 4,153rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 67 places from #4,220 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 25 boys named Chadwick in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #272, reached in 1975. That year also had the most boys given the name: 707. For comparison, it was #2,975 in 2015 and #1,891 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chadwick in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 6 babies. In all, 13,298 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 5,726 babies named Chadwick.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 311 US boys were named Chadwick; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 51. In 2025 that was about 1 in 68,323 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Chad (241,767 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Chadwyck, Chadwich and Chadwic are summarised on this page.