Meaning not yet researched.
Chancellor: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,089 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,089 in 2001; #4,421 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Chancellor in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,421 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #1,089.
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Chancellor: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,089 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 131 (2001).
In 2025, 23 US boys were named Chancellor, making it the 4,421st most common boys’ name of the year, down 326 places from #4,095 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 26 boys named Chancellor in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,089, reached in 2001. That year also had the most boys given the name: 131. For comparison, it was #1,769 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chancellor in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 5 babies. In all, 2,648 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 810 babies named Chancellor.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 545 US boys were named Chancellor; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 96. In 2025 that was about 1 in 74,264 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Chancelor, Chanceler and Chanceller 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Chancelor (841), Chanceler (128), Chanceller (23).
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 Chancellor in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 23 | #4,421 |
| 2024 | — | — | 26 | #4,095 |
| 2023 | — | — | 32 | #3,578 |
| 2022 | — | — | 38 | #3,166 |
| 2021 | — | — | 45 | #2,783 |
| 2020 | — | — | 53 | #2,440 |
| 2019 | — | — | 67 | #2,136 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,189 | 73 | #1,996 |
| 2017 | — | — | 96 | #1,648 |
| 2016 | — | — | 92 | #1,697 |
| 2015 | — | — | 86 | #1,769 |
| 2014 | — | — | 60 | #2,236 |
| 2013 | — | — | 51 | #2,428 |
| 2012 | — | — | 50 | #2,498 |
| 2011 | — | — | 43 | #2,760 |
| 2010 | — | — | 41 | #2,880 |
| 2009 | — | — | 41 | #2,906 |
| 2008 | — | — | 49 | #2,551 |
| 2007 | — | — | 76 | #1,879 |
| 2006 | — | — | 58 | #2,207 |
| 2005 | — | — | 64 | #1,969 |
| 2004 | — | — | 72 | #1,749 |
| 2003 | — | — | 99 | #1,366 |
| 2002 | — | — | 107 | #1,271 |
| 2001 | — | — | 131 | #1,089 |
| 2000 | — | — | 113 | #1,198 |
| 1999 | — | — | 85 | #1,385 |
| 1998 | — | — | 88 | #1,350 |
| 1997 | — | — | 92 | #1,255 |
| 1996 | — | — | 73 | #1,424 |
| 1995 | — | — | 67 | #1,457 |
| 1994 | — | — | 73 | #1,364 |
| 1993 | — | — | 57 | #1,578 |
| 1992 | — | — | 36 | #2,136 |
| 1991 | — | — | 56 | #1,547 |
| 1990 | — | — | 42 | #1,844 |
| 1989 | — | — | 48 | #1,644 |
| 1988 | — | — | 24 | #2,442 |
| 1987 | — | — | 23 | #2,407 |
| 1986 | — | — | 18 | #2,794 |
| 1985 | — | — | 15 | #3,094 |
| 1984 | — | — | 20 | #2,444 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,655 |
| 1982 | — | — | 11 | #3,729 |
| 1981 | — | — | 11 | #3,643 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,397 |
| 1979 | — | — | 16 | #2,792 |
| 1978 | — | — | 12 | #3,239 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,226 |
| 1976 | — | — | 13 | #2,967 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #4,886 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,249 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,210 |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,386 |
| 1970 | — | — | 10 | #3,100 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,353 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,221 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,010 |
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).