Chae — unisex name

What the Data Says About Chae

The Social Security Administration has registered 175 babies named Chae between 1970 and 2005, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Chae currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 24 babies received it in a single year. Chae is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 148 additional births since 1972.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chae performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 77 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Chae shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chae in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 175 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.