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 1919
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alabama#418 · 1 in 4,247
- Ohio#445 · 1 in 8,723
Best ever in a state: #152 in Tennessee, 1910.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | #418 | 6 | 1 in 4,247 |
| Ohio | #445 | 5 | 1 in 8,723 |
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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 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 1919
Top girls' names in 1919
Top boys' names in 1919
More about 1919
girls
1,130,117 girls got a published name in 1919; 1 in 226,023 of them was named Chas, which outranked 13.4% of the 5,559 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 745 names at #4,814; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
980,122 boys got a published name in 1919; 1 in 16,068 of them was named Chas, which outranked 82.6% of the 4,810 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).