Chucky

Last seen for boys in 2000 at #10,349

Peak · boys
1961 · 36 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
609
since 1948

Chucky over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Chucky has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201948peak #1,322, 1961boys
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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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2000#10,3495
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1996#9,0155
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1994#8,8005
1993#5,7719
1992#8,4355
1991#8,2365
1990#7,1786
1989#6,9416
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1984#5,5616
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1982#3,10814
1981#3,41212
1980#4,9407
1979#4,4038
1978#3,8579
1977#4,1648
1976#2,41718
1975#1,94824
1974#2,79913
1973#2,71613
1972#2,53414
1971#2,20318
1970#2,29316
1969#1,52628
1968#1,69522
1967#2,35212
1966#2,62710
1965#2,7809
1964#2,04016
1963#1,51327
1962#1,40331
1961#1,32236
1960#1,46330
1959#1,70922
1958#1,76620
1957#2,8229
1956#2,26313
1955#2,55810
1954#2,11414
1953#2,39111
1952#1,70120
1951#1,83817
1950#2,32111
1949#2,45310
1948#3,6685
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First appearance
1948

The first year at least five boys were named Chucky! It came in at #3,668, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1983, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Chucky is popular in 1948

No state had 5 or more boys named Chucky in 1948, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Chucky
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2000
Rise & fade · boys
13 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1948
  • Peaked 1961 at #1,322 (36 births)
  • Births halved by 1964, 3 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 59,005
  • Highest: 1 in 59,005 boys born in 1961 were named Chucky (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 392,800 boys born in 2000 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1960s
  • 36.3% of all boys named Chucky (221) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s15#2,453 (1949)#3,061
1950s147#1,701 (1952)#2,148
1960s221#1,322 (1961)#1,872
1970s141#1,948 (1975)#2,933
1980s45#3,108 (1982)#4,792
1990s35#5,771 (1993)#7,906
2000s5#10,349 (2000)#10,349

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.

Chucky in 1948

boys
#3,668
5 births · 1 in 350,924 boys

Top boys' names in 1948

  1. #1James88,605
  2. #2Robert85,478
  3. #3John82,834
  4. #4William61,972
  5. #5David56,627
  6. #6Michael52,566
  7. #7Richard50,970
  8. #8Thomas43,780
  9. #9Charles38,676
  10. #10Ronald33,527
  11. #3,668Chucky5
More about 1948

boys

1,754,618 boys got a published name in 1948; 1 in 350,924 of them was named Chucky, which outranked 12.6% of the 4,199 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Chucky
  1. #3,316Yaakov6
  2. #3,316Ygnacio6
  3. #3,316Zackery6
  4. #3,668Chucky5
  5. #3,668Abbie5
  6. #3,668Abbott5
  7. #3,668Abie5

Tied with 531 names at #3,668; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1947
Risers
  1. ↑ 514Arnulfo#1,316 → #802
  2. ↑ 422Lucio#1,394 → #972
  3. ↑ 377Isidro#1,190 → #813
  4. ↑ 363Shawn#923 → #560
  5. ↑ 331Aurelio#1,233 → #902
Fallers
  1. ↓ 400Marshal#1,000 → #1,400
  2. ↓ 390Robby#906 → #1,296
  3. ↓ 333Frances#923 → #1,256
  4. ↓ 324Deane#836 → #1,160
  5. ↓ 321Lenwood#975 → #1,296

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1948 →