Chalmer
Chalmer was last recorded in 2000, when 6 babies were given it; 1,427 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chalmer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chalmer?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,262, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
56 babies in 1918, the peak
Chalmer peaked in 1918, when 56 boys were given it, #890 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 6 | #9,262 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,107 | 2.7 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,513 | 2.8 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,016 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,588 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,583 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,034 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,462 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,310 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,011 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 5 | #4,219 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,289 | 4.0 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,590 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 12 | #2,435 | 6.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,688 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,695 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,719 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,849 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,824 | 4.3 |
| 1955 | 11 | #2,451 | 5.3 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,209 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,181 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,548 | 5.1 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,065 | 7.4 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,801 | 4.5 |
| 1949 | 19 | #1,712 | 10.7 |
| 1948 | 11 | #2,345 | 6.3 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,524 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 16 | #1,825 | 9.9 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,419 | 6.7 |
| 1944 | 16 | #1,750 | 11.7 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,190 | 8.4 |
| 1942 | 18 | #1,686 | 13.0 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,594 | 15.5 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,409 | 19.8 |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,650 | 15.4 |
| 1938 | 28 | #1,253 | 25.2 |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,412 | 21.6 |
| 1936 | 25 | #1,328 | 24.1 |
| 1935 | 27 | #1,299 | 25.9 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,613 | 18.4 |
| 1933 | 30 | #1,207 | 30.3 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,786 | 16.3 |
| 1931 | 30 | #1,257 | 28.9 |
| 1930 | 33 | #1,238 | 30.1 |
| 1929 | 26 | #1,418 | 24.2 |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,483 | 22.6 |
| 1927 | 32 | #1,297 | 28.4 |
| 1926 | 36 | #1,194 | 32.4 |
| 1925 | 45 | #1,024 | 40.3 |
| 1924 | 37 | #1,193 | 32.7 |
| 1923 | 47 | #1,029 | 42.9 |
| 1922 | 38 | #1,160 | 34.9 |
| 1921 | 51 | #983 | 46.3 |
| 1920 | 54 | #941 | 50.7 |
| 1919 | 35 | #1,190 | 35.7 |
| 1918 | 56 | #890 | 55.3 |
| 1917 | 49 | #911 | 52.9 |
| 1916 | 43 | #973 | 48.3 |
| 1915 | 52 | #858 | 61.3 |
| 1914 | 32 | #988 | 48.9 |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,117 | 41.0 |
| 1912 | 22 | #973 | 51.2 |
| 1911 | 16 | #829 | 70.8 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,491 | 30.5 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,240 | 38.9 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,218 | 40.9 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,274 | 37.6 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,017 | 52.9 |
| 1904 | 8 | #894 | 62.4 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,033 | 50.3 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,030 | 48.9 |
| 1901 | 8 | #788 | 75.1 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,152 | 40.8 |
| 1896 | 7 | #910 | 58.5 |
| 1895 | 6 | #999 | 51.1 |
| 1893 | 7 | #848 | 62.3 |
| 1891 | 7 | #781 | 69.2 |
| 1890 | 8 | #758 | 72.1 |
| 1889 | 6 | #893 | 54.3 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,059 | 41.4 |
| 1887 | 7 | #761 | 69.0 |
| 1886 | 5 | #990 | 45.1 |
| 1881 | 7 | #719 | 69.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Chalmer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chalmer has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 84 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chalmer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chalmer, and how old are they?
An estimated 234 Americans named Chalmer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (16% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 59 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 391 people named Chalmer (8 women and girls, 383 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 321 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% above 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).
Where are babies named Chalmer born?
The states with the most babies named Chalmer are Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania, with 82% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 137 | not ranked | 4.2× |
| Ohio | 107 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 107 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Missouri | 44 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Indiana | 20 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| West Virginia | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Chalmer is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chalmer is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 4.2 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 Chalmer with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Chalmer
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 Chalmer and names like it
- Compare Chalmer and OrvilleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sChalmer peaked in 1918.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chalmer since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Chalmer.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Chalmer alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.