Chan — #11010 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Chan

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,028 babies named Chan between 1919 and 2024, spanning 106 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Chan currently holds the #11010 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 24 babies received it in a single year. Chan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 212 additional births since 1956.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chan performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 199 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Chan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 88 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kansas and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Chan in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chan 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 1,028 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.