Meaning not yet researched.
Chet: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 65 in 2025. Its best rank was #612 in 1963.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #612 in 1963; #2,186 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Chet in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,186 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1963, at #612.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Chet: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 65 boys in 2025. Peak: #612 in 1963 · most boys in one year: 164 (1963).
In 2025, 65 US boys were named Chet, making it the 2,186th most common boys’ name of the year, down 85 places from #2,101 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 71 boys named Chet in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #612, reached in 1963. That year also had the most boys given the name: 164. For comparison, it was #3,035 in 2015 and #1,622 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chet in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 6 babies. In all, 6,180 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,232 babies named Chet.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 538 US boys were named Chet; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 71. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,278 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Chet ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #804 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Chett are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Chester.
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: Chett (381).
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.
Chet is listed as a nickname for Chesley, Chester.
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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 6 | #804 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 65 | #2,186 |
| 2024 | — | — | 71 | #2,101 |
| 2023 | — | — | 64 | #2,227 |
| 2022 | — | — | 66 | #2,194 |
| 2021 | — | — | 51 | #2,557 |
| 2020 | — | — | 46 | #2,698 |
| 2019 | — | — | 43 | #2,865 |
| 2018 | — | — | 50 | #2,554 |
| 2017 | — | — | 37 | #3,136 |
| 2016 | — | — | 45 | #2,692 |
| 2015 | — | — | 38 | #3,035 |
| 2014 | — | — | 46 | #2,630 |
| 2013 | — | — | 38 | #2,964 |
| 2012 | — | — | 30 | #3,548 |
| 2011 | — | — | 37 | #3,058 |
| 2010 | — | — | 42 | #2,830 |
| 2009 | — | — | 24 | #4,182 |
| 2008 | — | — | 36 | #3,169 |
| 2007 | — | — | 46 | #2,649 |
| 2006 | — | — | 33 | #3,233 |
| 2005 | — | — | 43 | #2,576 |
| 2004 | — | — | 51 | #2,247 |
| 2003 | — | — | 45 | #2,359 |
| 2002 | — | — | 41 | #2,433 |
| 2001 | — | — | 53 | #2,009 |
| 2000 | — | — | 51 | #1,995 |
| 1999 | — | — | 47 | #2,032 |
| 1998 | — | — | 49 | #1,962 |
| 1997 | — | — | 45 | #1,996 |
| 1996 | — | — | 66 | #1,520 |
| 1995 | — | — | 64 | #1,494 |
| 1994 | — | — | 60 | #1,547 |
| 1993 | — | — | 75 | #1,314 |
| 1992 | — | — | 56 | #1,576 |
| 1991 | — | — | 85 | #1,204 |
| 1990 | — | — | 78 | #1,253 |
| 1989 | — | — | 76 | #1,228 |
| 1988 | — | — | 83 | #1,092 |
| 1987 | — | — | 96 | #963 |
| 1986 | — | — | 84 | #1,010 |
| 1985 | — | — | 76 | #1,057 |
| 1984 | — | — | 88 | #940 |
| 1983 | — | — | 106 | #848 |
| 1982 | — | — | 102 | #885 |
| 1981 | — | — | 107 | #852 |
| 1980 | — | — | 106 | #862 |
| 1979 | — | — | 86 | #954 |
| 1978 | — | — | 130 | #742 |
| 1977 | — | — | 128 | #756 |
| 1976 | — | — | 140 | #703 |
| 1975 | — | — | 135 | #714 |
| 1974 | — | — | 117 | #750 |
| 1973 | — | — | 99 | #796 |
| 1972 | — | — | 102 | #792 |
| 1971 | — | — | 133 | #717 |
| 1970 | — | — | 158 | #651 |
| 1969 | — | — | 84 | #836 |
| 1968 | — | — | 90 | #780 |
| 1967 | — | — | 94 | #758 |
| 1966 | — | — | 113 | #696 |
| 1965 | — | — | 113 | #699 |
| 1964 | — | — | 144 | #647 |
| 1963 | — | — | 164 | #612 |
| 1962 | — | — | 154 | #625 |
| 1961 | — | — | 158 | #628 |
| 1960 | — | — | 118 | #718 |
| 1959 | — | — | 116 | #713 |
| 1958 | — | — | 116 | #696 |
| 1957 | — | — | 87 | #806 |
| 1956 | — | — | 80 | #836 |
| 1955 | — | — | 54 | #1,025 |
| 1954 | — | — | 37 | #1,228 |
| 1953 | — | — | 28 | #1,432 |
| 1952 | — | — | 19 | #1,757 |
| 1951 | — | — | 21 | #1,651 |
| 1950 | — | — | 21 | #1,622 |
| 1949 | — | — | 26 | #1,440 |
| 1948 | — | — | 21 | #1,616 |
| 1947 | — | — | 26 | #1,454 |
| 1946 | — | — | 34 | #1,198 |
| 1945 | — | — | 27 | #1,272 |
| 1944 | — | — | 19 | #1,584 |
| 1943 | — | — | 25 | #1,405 |
| 1942 | — | — | 14 | #1,961 |
| 1941 | — | — | 14 | #1,921 |
| 1940 | — | — | 10 | #2,349 |
| 1939 | — | — | 11 | #2,185 |
| 1938 | — | — | 9 | #2,510 |
| 1937 | — | — | 8 | #2,712 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #2,908 |
| 1935 | — | — | 14 | #1,945 |
| 1932 | — | — | 11 | #2,343 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,448 |
| 1930 | — | — | 8 | #3,064 |
| 1929 | — | — | 7 | #3,283 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #2,884 |
| 1926 | — | — | 9 | #2,950 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,465 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,460 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #3,889 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,412 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,541 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,461 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,424 |
| 1917 | — | — | 10 | #2,579 |
| 1915 | — | — | 8 | #2,863 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,693 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,614 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,633 |
| 1909 | — | — | 6 | #1,301 |
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).