Chancellor
Last seen for girls in 2018 at #15,682 · #4,396 for boys in 2025, 23 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 131 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,643since 1916
Chancellor over time
Rank among boys' names. Chancellor has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #4,396 | 23 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,072 | 26 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,566 | 32 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,151 | 38 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,775 | 45 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,437 | 53 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,129 | 67 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #1,994 | 73 |
| 2017 | — | #1,644 | 96 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,694 | 92 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,767 | 86 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,230 | 60 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,424 | 51 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,488 | 50 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,748 | 43 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,874 | 41 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,894 | 41 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,542 | 49 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,875 | 76 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,205 | 58 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,967 | 64 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,748 | 72 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,364 | 99 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,268 | 107 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,089 | 131 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,196 | 113 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,383 | 85 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,347 | 88 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,251 | 92 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,421 | 73 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,456 | 67 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,362 | 73 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,577 | 57 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,128 | 36 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,545 | 56 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,840 | 42 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,641 | 48 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,437 | 24 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,400 | 23 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,779 | 18 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,070 | 15 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,437 | 20 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,630 | 11 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,692 | 11 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,601 | 11 | |
| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,777 | 16 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,215 | 12 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,946 | 13 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
| 1974 | — | #4,190 | 7 | |
| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,344 | 9 | |
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| 1970 | — | #3,071 | 10 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,314 | 8 | |
| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Chancellor! It came in at #3,897, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1968, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Chancellor is popular in 1991
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Indiana#558 · 1 in 7,993
- Texas#1,186 · 1 in 21,895
- California#1,924 · 1 in 47,974
Best ever in a state: #408 in South Carolina, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Indiana | #558 | 5 | 1 in 7,993 |
| Texas | #1,186 | 7 | 1 in 21,895 |
| California | #1,924 | 6 | 1 in 47,974 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Chancellor
- 324 spots since 2024 (#4,072 → #4,396)
- 1,959 spots since 2020 (#2,437 → #4,396)
- 2,629 spots since 2015 (#1,767 → #4,396)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 2001 at #1,089 (131 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,831 boys born in 2001 were named Chancellor (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 74,264 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 30.6% of all boys named Chancellor (810) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 5 | #3,897 (1916) | #3,897 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 13 | #3,314 (1969) | #3,725 |
| 1970s | 84 | #2,777 (1979) | #3,840 |
| 1980s | 186 | #1,641 (1989) | #3,194 |
| 1990s | 669 | #1,251 (1997) | #1,531 |
| 2000s | 810 | #1,089 (2001) | #1,815 |
| 2010s | 659 | #1,644 (2017) | #2,199 |
| 2020s | 217 | #2,437 (2020) | #3,400 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Chancellor in 1991
Top boys' names in 1991
More about 1991
boys
2,020,328 boys got a published name in 1991; 1 in 36,077 of them was named Chancellor, which outranked 84.0% of the 9,648 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,528Margarito57
- #1,528Norris57
- #1,528Stanford57
- #1,545Chancellor56
- #1,545Abelardo56
- #1,545Amanda56
- #1,545Dimitrios56
- #1,557Akil55
- #1,557Brion55
- #1,557Christina55
Tied with 11 names at #1,545; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.