Chip
#4,249 for boys in 2025, 24 births
- Peak · boys
- 1962 · 171 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,493since 1942
Chip over time
Rank among boys' names. Chip has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,249 | 24 |
| 2024 | #3,272 | 36 |
| 2023 | #3,566 | 32 |
| 2022 | #2,919 | 43 |
| 2021 | #3,074 | 39 |
| 2020 | #2,658 | 47 |
| 2019 | #2,694 | 47 |
| 2018 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2017 | #3,249 | 35 |
| 2016 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2015 | #5,999 | 14 |
| 2014 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | — | |
| 2009 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | — | |
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| 1997 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #5,982 | 9 |
| 1995 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #4,231 | 13 |
| 1990 | #3,971 | 14 |
| 1989 | #3,094 | 19 |
| 1988 | #2,035 | 31 |
| 1987 | #2,942 | 17 |
| 1986 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #2,171 | 25 |
| 1984 | #2,036 | 26 |
| 1983 | #1,787 | 31 |
| 1982 | #1,999 | 27 |
| 1981 | #1,629 | 36 |
| 1980 | #1,378 | 47 |
| 1979 | #1,435 | 42 |
| 1978 | #989 | 76 |
| 1977 | #1,210 | 53 |
| 1976 | #1,427 | 39 |
| 1975 | #1,704 | 29 |
| 1974 | #1,335 | 41 |
| 1973 | #1,093 | 55 |
| 1972 | #1,069 | 57 |
| 1971 | #893 | 83 |
| 1970 | #845 | 91 |
| 1969 | #836 | 84 |
| 1968 | #834 | 76 |
| 1967 | #827 | 75 |
| 1966 | #794 | 84 |
| 1965 | #715 | 109 |
| 1964 | #615 | 162 |
| 1963 | #599 | 171 |
| 1962 | #593 | 171 |
| 1961 | #621 | 164 |
| 1960 | #681 | 133 |
| 1959 | #653 | 138 |
| 1958 | #771 | 93 |
| 1957 | #766 | 96 |
| 1956 | #703 | 111 |
| 1955 | #745 | 96 |
| 1954 | #876 | 70 |
| 1953 | #908 | 62 |
| 1952 | #1,055 | 47 |
| 1951 | #1,279 | 33 |
| 1950 | #1,220 | 35 |
| 1949 | #1,348 | 29 |
| 1948 | #1,519 | 23 |
| 1947 | #1,363 | 29 |
| 1946 | #1,509 | 22 |
| 1945 | #1,633 | 17 |
| 1944 | #2,080 | 12 |
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| 1942 | #3,212 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Chip! It came in at #3,212, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1943, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Chip is popular in 1977
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Tennessee#432 · 1 in 5,320
- Michigan#559 · 1 in 9,190
Best ever in a state: #285 in Nebraska, 1961.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Tennessee | #432 | 6 | 1 in 5,320 |
| Michigan | #559 | 7 | 1 in 9,190 |
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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 Chip
- 977 spots since 2024 (#3,272 → #4,249)
- 1,591 spots since 2020 (#2,658 → #4,249)
- 1,750 spots since 2015 (#5,999 → #4,249)
- Biggest jump: 221 spots in 1978 (#1,210 → #989)
- Biggest drop: 446 spots in 1979 (#989 → #1,435)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 1962 at #593 (171 births)
- Births halved by 1966, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 1953–1971
- Highest: 1 in 11,878 boys born in 1963 were named Chip (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 71,170 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #593 in 1962, was only 1 in 12,098 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 35.2% of all boys named Chip (1,229) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 138 | #1,348 (1949) | #1,809 |
| 1950s | 781 | #653 (1959) | #898 |
| 1960s | 1,229 | #593 (1962) | #712 |
| 1970s | 566 | #845 (1970) | #1,200 |
| 1980s | 273 | #1,378 (1980) | #2,234 |
| 1990s | 73 | #3,971 (1990) | #6,099 |
| 2000s | 48 | #8,456 (2002) | #10,399 |
| 2010s | 164 | #2,694 (2019) | #6,283 |
| 2020s | 221 | #2,658 (2020) | #3,290 |
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.
Chip in 1977
Top boys' names in 1977
More about 1977
boys
1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 31,004 of them was named Chip, which outranked 82.4% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,198Ryon54
- #1,198Truman54
- #1,198Yisroel54
- #1,210Chip53
- #1,210Benjiman53
- #1,210Cassidy53
- #1,210Christina53
- #1,221Baron52
- #1,221Dajuan52
- #1,221Delano52
Tied with 10 names at #1,210; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.