Chosen
#1,911 for girls in 2025, 101 births · #555 for boys in 2025, 540 births
Given to boys 80.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 540 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,248since 2003
Chosen over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #1,911 | 101 | #555 | 540 |
| 2024 | #1,966 | 100 | #619 | 462 |
| 2023 | #2,076 | 93 | #669 | 407 |
| 2022 | #2,445 | 74 | #895 | 262 |
| 2021 | #3,491 | 44 | #1,307 | 143 |
| 2020 | #3,676 | 40 | #1,473 | 116 |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 | #1,823 | 83 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | #1,937 | 76 |
| 2017 | #5,661 | 22 | #2,186 | 61 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #8,040 | 9 |
| 2014 | — | #7,562 | 10 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | — | #6,626 | 12 | |
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| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | — | #7,187 | 11 | |
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| 2006 | — | #10,662 | 6 | |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | — | |
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| 2003 | — | #9,581 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Chosen! It came in at #9,581, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2004–2005, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Chosen is popular in 2003
No state had 5 or more boys named Chosen in 2003, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Chosen
- 64 spots since 2024 (#619 → #555)
- 918 spots since 2020 (#1,473 → #555)
- 7,485 spots since 2015 (#8,040 → #555)
- Biggest jump: 412 spots in 2022 (#1,307 → #895)
- Debuted 2003
- Peaked 2025 at #555 (540 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2022–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,163 boys born in 2025 were named Chosen (0.03%)
- 85.9% of all boys named Chosen (1,930) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2015, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 29 | #7,187 (2008) | #9,606 |
| 2010s | 289 | #1,823 (2019) | #5,169 |
| 2020s | 1,930 | #555 (2025) | #920 |
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.
Chosen in 2003
Top boys' names in 2003
More about 2003
boys
1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 329,225 of them was named Chosen, which outranked 24.9% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,643Zyeir7
- #8,643Zyion7
- #8,643Zyshonne7
- #9,581Chosen6
- #9,581Aahil6
- #9,581Aaliyah6
- #9,581Abdalla6
- #10,894Aabid5
- #10,894Aadan5
- #10,894Aadith5
Tied with 1,312 names at #9,581; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.