Meaning not yet researched.
Chaney: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #970 in 1888.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #970 in 1888; #6,901 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Chaney in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,901 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1888, at #970.
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Chaney: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 girls in 2025. Peak: #970 in 1888 · most girls in one year: 57 (2003).
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Chaney, making it the 6,901st most common girls’ name of the year, up 418 places from #7,319 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 15 girls named Chaney in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #970, reached in 1888. The most girls given the name in a single year was 57, in 2003. For comparison, it was #6,780 in 2015 and #4,378 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Chaney in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #2,664, reached in 1915. The most boys given the name in a single year was 23, in 1998. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chaney in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 5 babies. In all, 1,783 US babies have been given the name, 77% of them girls and 23% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 467 babies named Chaney.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 147 US girls were named Chaney; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 22. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Chany (1,355 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Chanie, Chani and Chaniya 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: Chanie (957), Chani (718), Chaniya (671), Chania (360), Chanya (187), Chanee (176), Chanea (58), Channy (48), Chaynee (10).
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 Chaney 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 | 16 | #6,901 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,319 | — | — |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,489 | — | — |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,640 | 5 | #12,690 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,335 | — | — |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,296 | — | — |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,094 | — | — |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,245 | — | — |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,700 | — | — |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,077 | — | — |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,780 | — | — |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,745 | — | — |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,469 | — | — |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,526 | — | — |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,916 | 6 | #11,063 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,605 | 5 | #12,562 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,574 | 5 | #12,807 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,485 | — | — |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,148 | 6 | #11,150 |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,986 | 11 | #6,988 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,966 | 10 | #7,203 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,761 | 8 | #8,264 |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,741 | 20 | #4,134 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,905 | 12 | #5,784 |
| 2001 | 54 | #2,745 | 19 | #4,150 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,823 | 11 | #5,977 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,820 | 12 | #5,360 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,026 | 23 | #3,308 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,914 | 15 | #4,276 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,040 | 8 | #6,593 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,795 | 12 | #4,837 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,804 | 16 | #3,936 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,360 | 10 | #5,410 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,515 | 18 | #3,477 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,041 | 18 | #3,346 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,827 | 11 | #4,714 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,704 | 8 | #5,715 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,098 | 11 | #4,201 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,889 | 6 | #6,215 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,372 | 7 | #5,425 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,087 | 9 | #4,381 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,955 | 6 | #5,682 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,291 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,253 | 6 | #5,742 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,370 | 5 | #6,427 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,871 | 5 | #6,398 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,136 | 11 | #3,600 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,019 | 7 | #4,627 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,255 | 12 | #3,225 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,513 | 6 | #5,019 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,037 | 6 | #4,889 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,002 | 11 | #3,164 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,163 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,411 | 9 | #3,388 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,604 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,887 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,737 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,930 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,708 | 6 | #3,584 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,497 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,199 | — | — |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #3,797 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,378 | — | — |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,050 | — | — |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,799 | — | — |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,714 | — | — |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,549 | 5 | #4,456 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,455 | — | — |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,029 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,940 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,606 | — | — |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,937 | 9 | #2,664 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,253 | — | — |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,883 | — | — |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,417 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,529 | — | — |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,523 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,767 | — | — |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,690 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,629 | — | — |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,833 | — | — |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,762 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1888 | 8 | #970 | — | — |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,132 | — | — |
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).