Chalmers
Chalmers is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 864th, in 1891.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191938 births
- Best rank
- #864in 1891
- Since 1880
- 1,082people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,082 boys have been named Chalmers in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 38 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 38 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Chalmers | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 15 | |
| 1890s | 18 | |
| 1900s | 23 | |
| 1910s | 216 | |
| 1920s | 275 | |
| 1930s | 149 | |
| 1940s | 151 | |
| 1950s | 95 | |
| 1960s | 54 | |
| 1970s | 29 | |
| 1980s | 32 | |
| 1990s | 7 | |
| 2000s | 18 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Chalmers was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1919 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Chalmers
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Delospeak 1923
- Adolfpeak 1918
- Newellpeak 1916
- Wilfordpeak 1926
- Elwoodpeak 1921
- Bertrandpeak 1924
- Milfordpeak 1921
- Wilmerpeak 1920
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.