Chad
Chad is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 90 births. Its best rank was 25th, in 1972–1973.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 900.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 197213,391 births
- Best rank
- #25first in 1972
- Since 1914
- 241,679people given the name
The story in the numbers
240,640 boys have been named Chad in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1972, with 13,391 births — 0.83% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 90 births in 2024, against 13,391 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1978, and the 1970s alone account for 47%. It has spent 73 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 22 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,039 girls have also been given it, 0.43% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Chad | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 50 | |
| 1920s | 103 | |
| 1930s | 157 | |
| 1940s | 451 | |
| 1950s | 1,836 | |
| 1960s | 15,906 | |
| 1970s | 113,538 | |
| 1980s | 69,054 | |
| 1990s | 27,111 | |
| 2000s | 8,517 | |
| 2010s | 3,279 | |
| 2020s | 638 |
In 1972, its biggest year
Chad was the 25th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1972 were Michael, Christopher, James, David and John. See all of 1972.
Names that rose and fell with Chad
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Chadwickpeak 1975
- Jasonpeak 1977
- Heathpeak 1974
- Jeromypeak 1976
- Jameypeak 1976
- Brainpeak 1982
- Darrickpeak 1971
- Shawnpeak 1971
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.