Chaney

Where Chaney comes from

Variant of Chesney.
— Wiktionary's entry for Chaney
  • Vowel-ended
Chaney through the years
  1. 1886
    First appearance
    #1,108 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1888
    Peak, #959
    8 babies named Chaney, its best rank.
  3. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1977
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Chaney in Wikidata.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.