Chas
Last seen for girls in 1990 at #12,958 · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1880 · 53 births
- Debut · boys
- 53 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,213since 1880
Chas over time
Rank among boys' names. Chas has never cracked the top 200 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #12,008 | 5 | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | — | — | ||
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | — | #12,156 | 5 | |
| 2017 | — | — | ||
| 2016 | — | #7,605 | 10 | |
| 2015 | — | #9,568 | 7 | |
| 2014 | — | #10,717 | 6 | |
| 2013 | — | #7,026 | 11 | |
| 2012 | — | #7,559 | 10 | |
| 2011 | — | #9,600 | 7 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,478 | 16 | |
| 2009 | — | #6,436 | 13 | |
| 2008 | — | #6,763 | 12 | |
| 2007 | — | #6,262 | 13 | |
| 2006 | — | #5,781 | 14 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,464 | 19 | |
| 2004 | — | #6,976 | 10 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,838 | 22 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,044 | 20 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,974 | 20 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,525 | 37 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,834 | 19 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,486 | 21 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,455 | 20 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,380 | 33 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,988 | 42 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,041 | 40 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,091 | 38 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,844 | 44 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,528 | 57 | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #1,615 | 51 |
| 1989 | — | #1,243 | 75 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,223 | 69 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,400 | 52 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,645 | 39 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,672 | 37 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,214 | 57 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,711 | 33 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,929 | 28 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,766 | 32 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,765 | 32 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,833 | 30 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,012 | 24 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,948 | 25 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,508 | 17 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,540 | 16 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,120 | 11 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,223 | 10 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,080 | 19 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,370 | 9 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,282 | 9 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | #3,966 | 5 | |
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
| 1964 | — | — | ||
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
| 1961 | — | — | ||
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | — | ||
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | #2,862 | 7 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,405 | 10 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,940 | 7 | |
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | #2,671 | 8 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,680 | 8 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,301 | 10 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,529 | 9 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,742 | 8 | |
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | #2,101 | 13 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,471 | 10 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,444 | 11 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,589 | 10 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,522 | 24 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,098 | 42 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,064 | 43 | |
| 1925 | — | #900 | 56 | |
| 1924 | — | #944 | 55 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,235 | 34 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,039 | 46 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,018 | 47 | |
| 1920 | — | #846 | 64 | |
| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 | #839 | 61 |
| 1918 | — | #710 | 79 | |
| 1917 | — | #723 | 72 | |
| 1916 | — | #715 | 70 | |
| 1915 | — | #570 | 99 | |
| 1914 | — | #632 | 64 | |
| 1913 | — | #720 | 41 | |
| 1912 | — | #622 | 44 | |
| 1911 | — | #605 | 25 | |
| 1910 | — | #634 | 21 | |
| 1909 | — | #679 | 16 | |
| 1908 | — | #585 | 19 | |
| 1907 | — | #439 | 28 | |
| 1906 | — | #443 | 25 | |
| 1905 | — | #666 | 13 | |
| 1904 | — | #409 | 26 | |
| 1903 | — | #487 | 19 | |
| 1902 | — | #380 | 27 | |
| 1901 | — | #422 | 20 | |
| 1900 | — | #446 | 26 | |
| 1899 | — | #548 | 13 | |
| 1898 | — | #403 | 24 | |
| 1897 | — | #411 | 21 | |
| 1896 | — | #481 | 18 | |
| 1895 | — | #501 | 16 | |
| 1894 | — | #387 | 23 | |
| 1893 | — | #401 | 20 | |
| 1892 | — | #375 | 26 | |
| 1891 | — | #411 | 18 | |
| 1890 | — | #322 | 29 | |
| 1889 | — | #305 | 32 | |
| 1888 | — | #312 | 33 | |
| 1887 | — | #261 | 38 | |
| 1886 | — | #267 | 40 | |
| 1885 | — | #274 | 37 | |
| 1884 | — | #271 | 39 | |
| 1883 | — | #263 | 38 | |
| 1882 | — | #248 | 46 | |
| 1881 | — | #252 | 39 | |
| 1880 | — | #220 | 53 | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Chas was already there! It came in at #220, and was given to 53 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1933, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Chas is popular in 1912
No state had 5 or more boys named Chas in 1912, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Chas
- 2,440 spots since 2015 (#9,568 → #12,008)
- Biggest jump: 291 spots in 1924 (#1,235 → #944)
- Biggest drop: 257 spots in 1905 (#409 → #666)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #220 (53 births)
- Births halved by 1891, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 43 yrs · run 1880–1920
- Highest: 1 in 2,085 boys born in 1880 were named Chas (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 17.9% of all boys named Chas (576) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 395 | #220 (1880) | #267 |
| 1890s | 208 | #322 (1890) | #424 |
| 1900s | 219 | #380 (1902) | #496 |
| 1910s | 576 | #570 (1915) | #677 |
| 1920s | 421 | #846 (1920) | #1,226 |
| 1930s | 79 | #2,101 (1932) | #2,698 |
| 1940s | 32 | #2,405 (1943) | #2,720 |
| 1950s | 16 | #3,552 (1957) | #3,779 |
| 1960s | 21 | #3,930 (1965) | #3,966 |
| 1970s | 170 | #1,833 (1979) | #2,592 |
| 1980s | 454 | #1,214 (1984) | #1,557 |
| 1990s | 365 | #1,528 (1991) | #2,426 |
| 2000s | 180 | #2,525 (2000) | #5,106 |
| 2010s | 72 | #5,478 (2010) | #8,714 |
| 2020s | 5 | #12,008 (2025) | #12,008 |
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.
Chas in 1912
Top boys' names in 1912
More about 1912
boys
429,942 boys got a published name in 1912; 1 in 9,771 of them was named Chas, which outranked 78.6% of the 2,905 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).