Meaning not yet researched.
Chosen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 540 in 2025. Its best rank was #555 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 84% of babies named Chosen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#555 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Chosen: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 540 boys in 2025. Peak: #555 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 540 (2025).
In 2025, 540 US boys were named Chosen, making it the 555th most common boys’ name of the year, up 64 places from #619 in 2024. That is 78 more than the 462 boys named Chosen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #555, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 540. For comparison, it was #8,161 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 101 US girls were named Chosen, making it the 1,913th most common girls’ name of the year, up 57 places from #1,970 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 100 girls named Chosen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,913, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 101. For comparison, it was #11,091 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chosen in 19 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2003 with 6 babies. In all, 2,794 US babies have been given the name, 20% of them girls and 80% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,382 babies named Chosen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,181 US boys were named Chosen; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 540. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,163 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Chosen ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #162 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Chozen (1,773 babies since 1880) and Chozyn (711 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Chosyn, Khosen and Khozen 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: Chosyn (539), Khosen (66), Khozen (44), Chosynn (26), Choszen (14), Chozin (6), Chosenn (6), Khosyn (5).
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 Chosen 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 76 | #162 | — |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #173 | — |
| Mississippi | 14 | #220 | — |
| South Carolina | 25 | #227 | — |
| Louisiana | 19 | #268 | — |
| North Carolina | 36 | #326 | — |
| Alabama | 16 | #339 | — |
| Nevada | 7 | #399 | — |
| Virginia | 19 | #412 | — |
| Maryland | 12 | #415 | — |
| Florida | 46 | #423 | — |
| Tennessee | 18 | #435 | — |
| Michigan | 17 | #490 | — |
| Indiana | 13 | #516 | — |
| Texas | 59 | #546 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #551 | — |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #568 | — |
| New York | 26 | #587 | — |
| New Jersey | 9 | #719 | — |
| Ohio | 12 | #720 | — |
| Missouri | 7 | #731 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #731 | — |
| Illinois | 11 | #764 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #833 | — |
| California | 23 | #963 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 101 | #1,913 | 540 | #555 |
| 2024 | 100 | #1,970 | 462 | #619 |
| 2023 | 93 | #2,080 | 407 | #669 |
| 2022 | 74 | #2,451 | 262 | #895 |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,501 | 143 | #1,309 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,699 | 116 | #1,474 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,030 | 83 | #1,825 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,864 | 76 | #1,940 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,702 | 61 | #2,194 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,722 | 31 | #3,540 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,091 | 9 | #8,161 |
| 2014 | — | — | 10 | #7,653 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,117 | 7 | #9,839 |
| 2012 | — | — | 12 | #6,694 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,686 | 6 | #11,246 |
| 2008 | — | — | 11 | #7,286 |
| 2006 | — | — | 6 | #10,908 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,312 | — | — |
| 2003 | — | — | 6 | #9,786 |
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).