Meaning not yet researched.
Chandler: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 342 in 2025. Its best rank was #151 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #151 in 1999; #753 in 2025. About 54% of babies named Chandler in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#753 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #151.
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Chandler: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 342 boys in 2025. Peak: #151 in 1999 · most boys in one year: 2,395 (1999).
In 2025, 342 US boys were named Chandler, making it the 753rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 18 places from #735 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 355 boys named Chandler in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #151, reached in 1999. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,395. For comparison, it was #423 in 2015 and #1,541 in 1950.
In 2025, 296 US girls were named Chandler, making it the 895th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1 place from #896 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 297 girls named Chandler in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #350, reached in 1993. The most girls given the name in a single year was 744, in 1995. For comparison, it was #1,059 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chandler in 118 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 5 babies. In all, 46,892 US babies have been given the name, 22% of them girls and 78% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 17,396 babies named Chandler.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,771 US boys were named Chandler; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 655. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,994 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Chandler ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #304 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Chandlar, Chandlor and Chandlyr 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: Chandlar (172), Chandlor (95), Chandlyr (13).
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 Chandler 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 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 18 | #304 | #244 |
| Arkansas | 11 | #311 | #199 |
| Louisiana | 14 | #356 | #199 |
| Georgia | 29 | #395 | #242 |
| Tennessee | 19 | #413 | #287 |
| North Carolina | 25 | #432 | #249 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #450 | — |
| Kentucky | 10 | #460 | #200 |
| South Carolina | 10 | #474 | #163 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #474 | #377 |
| Iowa | 6 | #512 | #359 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #538 | #164 |
| Kansas | 5 | #610 | #361 |
| Missouri | 8 | #659 | #426 |
| Virginia | 10 | #681 | #309 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #703 | #427 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #713 | #459 |
| Michigan | 10 | #729 | #345 |
| Florida | 18 | #815 | #606 |
| Ohio | 9 | #871 | #405 |
| Indiana | 6 | #871 | #269 |
| Illinois | 9 | #881 | #498 |
| Texas | 25 | #957 | #441 |
| New York | 8 | #1,323 | #1,258 |
| California | 8 | #1,857 | #1,328 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 296 | #895 | 342 | #753 |
| 2024 | 297 | #896 | 355 | #735 |
| 2023 | 296 | #901 | 391 | #687 |
| 2022 | 291 | #928 | 433 | #640 |
| 2021 | 303 | #892 | 460 | #604 |
| 2020 | 263 | #968 | 491 | #569 |
| 2019 | 284 | #930 | 480 | #582 |
| 2018 | 257 | #1,010 | 567 | #505 |
| 2017 | 250 | #1,033 | 597 | #489 |
| 2016 | 265 | #998 | 655 | #467 |
| 2015 | 249 | #1,059 | 732 | #423 |
| 2014 | 223 | #1,128 | 731 | #421 |
| 2013 | 196 | #1,231 | 675 | #430 |
| 2012 | 161 | #1,417 | 598 | #455 |
| 2011 | 140 | #1,565 | 615 | #441 |
| 2010 | 116 | #1,772 | 524 | #495 |
| 2009 | 100 | #2,044 | 579 | #472 |
| 2008 | 122 | #1,789 | 609 | #455 |
| 2007 | 135 | #1,648 | 675 | #427 |
| 2006 | 132 | #1,618 | 753 | #401 |
| 2005 | 156 | #1,379 | 870 | #340 |
| 2004 | 136 | #1,480 | 1,130 | #282 |
| 2003 | 172 | #1,228 | 1,270 | #260 |
| 2002 | 223 | #986 | 1,417 | #238 |
| 2001 | 240 | #925 | 1,792 | #205 |
| 2000 | 326 | #711 | 2,131 | #174 |
| 1999 | 447 | #562 | 2,395 | #151 |
| 1998 | 412 | #586 | 1,952 | #173 |
| 1997 | 416 | #565 | 1,796 | #184 |
| 1996 | 493 | #485 | 2,187 | #157 |
| 1995 | 744 | #353 | 1,856 | #177 |
| 1994 | 570 | #444 | 704 | #348 |
| 1993 | 733 | #350 | 661 | #358 |
| 1992 | 437 | #541 | 554 | #409 |
| 1991 | 90 | #1,662 | 468 | #456 |
| 1990 | 84 | #1,737 | 397 | #485 |
| 1989 | 65 | #1,968 | 301 | #557 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,606 | 224 | #637 |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,731 | 199 | #649 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,055 | 142 | #761 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,113 | 120 | #810 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,185 | 118 | #804 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,700 | 88 | #942 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,192 | 90 | #944 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,178 | 70 | #1,084 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,018 | 66 | #1,112 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,170 | 70 | #1,058 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,979 | 63 | #1,099 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,669 | 48 | #1,290 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,394 | 66 | #1,021 |
| 1975 | — | — | 66 | #1,009 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,333 | 45 | #1,250 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,612 | 58 | #1,068 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,410 | 94 | #827 |
| 1971 | — | — | 99 | #811 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,162 | 103 | #801 |
| 1969 | — | — | 83 | #842 |
| 1968 | — | — | 50 | #1,049 |
| 1967 | — | — | 50 | #1,032 |
| 1966 | — | — | 34 | #1,305 |
| 1965 | — | — | 27 | #1,489 |
| 1964 | — | — | 31 | #1,408 |
| 1963 | — | — | 31 | #1,405 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,309 | 28 | #1,481 |
| 1961 | — | — | 31 | #1,442 |
| 1960 | — | — | 28 | #1,527 |
| 1959 | — | — | 25 | #1,597 |
| 1958 | — | — | 22 | #1,688 |
| 1957 | — | — | 32 | #1,393 |
| 1956 | — | — | 26 | #1,539 |
| 1955 | — | — | 23 | #1,616 |
| 1954 | — | — | 24 | #1,563 |
| 1953 | — | — | 16 | #1,971 |
| 1952 | — | — | 17 | #1,869 |
| 1951 | — | — | 22 | #1,603 |
| 1950 | — | — | 23 | #1,541 |
| 1949 | — | — | 21 | #1,622 |
| 1948 | — | — | 19 | #1,714 |
| 1947 | — | — | 32 | #1,300 |
| 1946 | — | — | 22 | #1,518 |
| 1945 | — | — | 18 | #1,590 |
| 1944 | — | — | 20 | #1,533 |
| 1943 | — | — | 23 | #1,466 |
| 1942 | — | — | 24 | #1,427 |
| 1941 | — | — | 15 | #1,831 |
| 1940 | — | — | 11 | #2,202 |
| 1939 | — | — | 23 | #1,399 |
| 1938 | — | — | 14 | #1,913 |
| 1937 | — | — | 23 | #1,413 |
| 1936 | — | — | 20 | #1,511 |
| 1935 | — | — | 25 | #1,363 |
| 1934 | — | — | 29 | #1,244 |
| 1933 | — | — | 25 | #1,336 |
| 1932 | — | — | 18 | #1,726 |
| 1931 | — | — | 28 | #1,306 |
| 1930 | — | — | 14 | #2,096 |
| 1929 | — | — | 21 | #1,624 |
| 1928 | — | — | 22 | #1,612 |
| 1927 | — | — | 28 | #1,411 |
| 1926 | — | — | 27 | #1,408 |
| 1925 | — | — | 27 | #1,427 |
| 1924 | — | — | 26 | #1,495 |
| 1923 | — | — | 25 | #1,512 |
| 1922 | — | — | 37 | #1,183 |
| 1921 | — | — | 26 | #1,485 |
| 1920 | — | — | 39 | #1,141 |
| 1919 | — | — | 36 | #1,165 |
| 1918 | — | — | 25 | #1,452 |
| 1917 | — | — | 28 | #1,297 |
| 1916 | — | — | 26 | #1,344 |
| 1915 | — | — | 24 | #1,377 |
| 1914 | — | — | 22 | #1,270 |
| 1913 | — | — | 9 | #1,968 |
| 1912 | — | — | 18 | #1,103 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,782 |
| 1909 | — | — | 6 | #1,299 |
| 1907 | — | — | 6 | #1,220 |
| 1900 | — | — | 5 | #1,350 |
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).