Meaning not yet researched.
Chip: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #593 in 1962.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #593 in 1962; #4,274 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Chip in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,274 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1962, at #593.
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Chip: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 boys in 2025. Peak: #593 in 1962 · most boys in one year: 171 (1963).
In 2025, 24 US boys were named Chip, making it the 4,274th most common boys’ name of the year, down 992 places from #3,282 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 36 boys named Chip in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #593, reached in 1962. The most boys given the name in a single year was 171, in 1963. For comparison, it was #6,054 in 2015 and #1,223 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chip in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1942 with 6 babies. In all, 3,493 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,229 babies named Chip.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 350 US boys were named Chip; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 47. In 2025 that was about 1 in 71,170 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Charles (2,447,135 babies since 1880) and Christopher (2,079,103 babies since 1880).
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.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Chip 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 | — | — | 24 | #4,274 |
| 2024 | — | — | 36 | #3,282 |
| 2023 | — | — | 32 | #3,579 |
| 2022 | — | — | 43 | #2,928 |
| 2021 | — | — | 39 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | — | — | 47 | #2,665 |
| 2019 | — | — | 47 | #2,701 |
| 2018 | — | — | 31 | #3,549 |
| 2017 | — | — | 35 | #3,256 |
| 2016 | — | — | 16 | #5,602 |
| 2015 | — | — | 14 | #6,054 |
| 2014 | — | — | 8 | #8,920 |
| 2013 | — | — | 7 | #9,837 |
| 2011 | — | — | 6 | #11,075 |
| 2009 | — | — | 6 | #11,245 |
| 2008 | — | — | 5 | #12,858 |
| 2007 | — | — | 8 | #9,057 |
| 2006 | — | — | 6 | #10,907 |
| 2005 | — | — | 5 | #11,749 |
| 2003 | — | — | 5 | #11,179 |
| 2002 | — | — | 7 | #8,614 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #9,460 |
| 1997 | — | — | 7 | #7,412 |
| 1996 | — | — | 9 | #6,073 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #9,085 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,077 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,412 |
| 1992 | — | — | 8 | #6,222 |
| 1991 | — | — | 13 | #4,271 |
| 1990 | — | — | 14 | #4,004 |
| 1989 | — | — | 19 | #3,111 |
| 1988 | — | — | 31 | #2,043 |
| 1987 | — | — | 17 | #2,965 |
| 1986 | — | — | 14 | #3,294 |
| 1985 | — | — | 25 | #2,180 |
| 1984 | — | — | 26 | #2,047 |
| 1983 | — | — | 31 | #1,791 |
| 1982 | — | — | 27 | #2,010 |
| 1981 | — | — | 36 | #1,636 |
| 1980 | — | — | 47 | #1,381 |
| 1979 | — | — | 42 | #1,438 |
| 1978 | — | — | 76 | #990 |
| 1977 | — | — | 53 | #1,212 |
| 1976 | — | — | 39 | #1,428 |
| 1975 | — | — | 29 | #1,714 |
| 1974 | — | — | 41 | #1,335 |
| 1973 | — | — | 55 | #1,093 |
| 1972 | — | — | 57 | #1,070 |
| 1971 | — | — | 83 | #894 |
| 1970 | — | — | 91 | #846 |
| 1969 | — | — | 84 | #837 |
| 1968 | — | — | 76 | #834 |
| 1967 | — | — | 75 | #827 |
| 1966 | — | — | 84 | #794 |
| 1965 | — | — | 109 | #715 |
| 1964 | — | — | 162 | #615 |
| 1963 | — | — | 171 | #600 |
| 1962 | — | — | 171 | #593 |
| 1961 | — | — | 164 | #621 |
| 1960 | — | — | 133 | #681 |
| 1959 | — | — | 138 | #653 |
| 1958 | — | — | 93 | #771 |
| 1957 | — | — | 96 | #768 |
| 1956 | — | — | 111 | #703 |
| 1955 | — | — | 96 | #746 |
| 1954 | — | — | 70 | #880 |
| 1953 | — | — | 62 | #908 |
| 1952 | — | — | 47 | #1,056 |
| 1951 | — | — | 33 | #1,281 |
| 1950 | — | — | 35 | #1,223 |
| 1949 | — | — | 29 | #1,352 |
| 1948 | — | — | 23 | #1,525 |
| 1947 | — | — | 29 | #1,368 |
| 1946 | — | — | 22 | #1,519 |
| 1945 | — | — | 17 | #1,638 |
| 1944 | — | — | 12 | #2,098 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,275 |
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).