Chae
Chae was last recorded in 2005, when 6 babies were given it; 323 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chae?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,839, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 1988, the peak
Chae peaked in 1988, when 31 babies were given it (24 girls, #3,809 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 6 | #14,839 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 7 | #9,091 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,198 | 6 | #9,769 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,298 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,027 | 5 | #10,615 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,907 | 6 | #8,864 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,740 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,356 | 7 | #7,397 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,728 | 8 | #6,581 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,046 | 8 | #6,475 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 8 | #9,718 | 5 | #8,996 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,037 | 5 | #8,908 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,624 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,742 | 9 | #5,574 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,521 | 8 | #5,906 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,697 | 10 | #4,859 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,809 | 7 | #5,847 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,311 | 7 | #5,569 |
| 1986 | under 5 | 5 | #6,881 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 5 | #6,677 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 5 | #6,423 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 6 | #5,461 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #5,974 | |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,504 | 6 | #5,015 |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,586 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 7 | #4,129 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,516 | |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,154 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Chae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 323 Americans recorded as Chae, 54% are girls and 46% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Chae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chae, and how old are they?
An estimated 311 Americans named Chae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 30 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,785 people named Chae (1,027 women and girls, 758 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 314 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 16,613 babies since 1880, Chae is the third most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 499 babies recorded by SSA was a Chae (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 Chae
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 Chae and names like it
- Compare Chae and ChayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sChae peaked in 1988.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Chae.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chae alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.