Chip
Chip is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 36 births. Its best rank was 593rd, in 1962.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 360.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1962171 births
- Best rank
- #593in 1962
- Since 1942
- 3,469people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,469 boys have been named Chip in the United States since 1942, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 171 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1965, and the 1960s alone account for 35%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1962, its biggest year
Chip was the 593rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1962 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1962.
Names that rose and fell with Chip
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Martypeak 1962
- Greggpeak 1962
- Markpeak 1960
- Gregpeak 1961
- Timmypeak 1960
- Kirkpeak 1962
- Jefforypeak 1967
- Darrypeak 1960
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.