Chief
- #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 34 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 348since 1919
Chief over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Chief has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,861 | 15 |
| 2024 | #4,072 | 26 |
| 2023 | #3,712 | 30 |
| 2022 | #3,995 | 27 |
| 2021 | #3,497 | 32 |
| 2020 | #3,274 | 34 |
| 2019 | #3,899 | 27 |
| 2018 | #4,739 | 20 |
| 2017 | #4,746 | 20 |
| 2016 | #5,318 | 17 |
| 2015 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #5,252 | 17 |
| 2013 | #6,241 | 13 |
| 2012 | #8,158 | 9 |
| 2011 | #8,767 | 8 |
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| 2009 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #10,151 | 6 |
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First appearance
1919
The first year at least five boys were named Chief! It came in at #4,168, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1919–2004, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Chief is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Chief in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Chief
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 1,789 spots since 2024 (#4,072 → #5,861)
- 2,587 spots since 2020 (#3,274 → #5,861)
- 572 spots since 2015 (#5,289 → #5,861)
Rise & fade · boys
101 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1919
- Peaked 2020 at #3,274 (34 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 50,767
- Highest: 1 in 50,767 boys born in 2020 were named Chief (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 113,872 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
- 47.1% of all boys named Chief (164) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 5 | #4,168 (1919) | #4,168 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
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| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 31 | #8,985 (2009) | #10,630 |
| 2010s | 148 | #3,899 (2019) | #5,823 |
| 2020s | 164 | #3,274 (2020) | #4,069 |
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.
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