Chadd
Chadd was last recorded in 2017, when 6 babies were given it; 2,456 Americans have been recorded with it between 1957 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,280 Americans named Chadd and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 36 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chadd by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chadd?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,011, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
105 babies in 1989, the peak
Chadd peaked in 1989, when 105 boys were given it, #995 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | #11,011 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,521 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,879 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,950 | 3.1 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,179 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,977 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,228 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,806 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,043 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,195 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 10 | #7,049 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,307 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,601 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 20 | #3,985 | 10.3 |
| 2000 | 26 | #3,220 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 26 | #3,116 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 27 | #2,933 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 35 | #2,352 | 18.6 |
| 1996 | 40 | #2,112 | 21.1 |
| 1995 | 44 | #1,915 | 23.1 |
| 1994 | 48 | #1,795 | 24.8 |
| 1993 | 50 | #1,718 | 25.5 |
| 1992 | 67 | #1,378 | 33.5 |
| 1991 | 63 | #1,427 | 31.2 |
| 1990 | 80 | #1,221 | 38.9 |
| 1989 | 105 | #995 | 52.5 |
| 1988 | 99 | #969 | 51.7 |
| 1987 | 81 | #1,061 | 43.4 |
| 1986 | 71 | #1,119 | 38.6 |
| 1985 | 93 | #947 | 50.3 |
| 1984 | 87 | #943 | 48.2 |
| 1983 | 74 | #1,031 | 41.3 |
| 1982 | 86 | #971 | 47.4 |
| 1981 | 64 | #1,145 | 35.7 |
| 1980 | 92 | #927 | 51.6 |
| 1979 | 78 | #1,005 | 45.3 |
| 1978 | 95 | #881 | 57.9 |
| 1977 | 82 | #938 | 49.9 |
| 1976 | 67 | #1,014 | 42.7 |
| 1975 | 72 | #965 | 46.1 |
| 1974 | 95 | #826 | 60.4 |
| 1973 | 87 | #848 | 55.8 |
| 1972 | 96 | #816 | 59.2 |
| 1971 | 89 | #864 | 50.3 |
| 1970 | 64 | #1,017 | 34.4 |
| 1969 | 28 | #1,530 | 15.7 |
| 1968 | 31 | #1,397 | 17.8 |
| 1967 | 30 | #1,388 | 17.2 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,144 | 7.8 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,815 | 4.8 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,888 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,083 | 3.9 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,038 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,621 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Chadd a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chadd has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chadd: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chadd, and how old are they?
2,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 2,456 Americans ever recorded as Chadd. The median Chadd alive today is 43 years old; half are between 36 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 2,091 people named Chadd (0 women and girls, 2,091 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,325 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 21 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 922 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,090 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 217 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 25 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Chadd born?
The states with the most babies named Chadd are Pennsylvania, California and Ohio, with 54% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 191 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 149 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 130 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 102 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Michigan | 78 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 55 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 43 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Chadd is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chadd is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1957 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Chadd with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Chadd?
Chadd is a less common spelling of Chad: SSA has recorded 2,456 Chadd and 241,767 Chad since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 244,223 babies since 1880, Chadd is the second most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 96 babies recorded by SSA was a Chadd (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Chadd
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Chadd and names like it
- Compare Chadd and ChadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sChadd peaked in 1989.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chadd since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Chadd.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chadd alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.