Chancellor
Chancellor was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,420 among boys’ names; 2,648 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,580 Americans named Chancellor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 12 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chancellor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chancellor?
#4,420 among boys’ names, 2025
Chancellor fell from #1,769 in 2015 to #4,420 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 44.9 to 13.5 per million.
131 babies in 2001, the peak
Chancellor peaked in 2001, when 131 boys were given it, #1,087 among boys’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,420 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 26 | #4,092 | 15.1 |
| 2023 | 32 | #3,576 | 18.7 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,164 | 21.8 |
| 2021 | 45 | #2,782 | 25.7 |
| 2020 | 53 | #2,439 | 30.7 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,135 | 37.3 |
| 2018 | 73 | #1,995 | 40.2 |
| 2017 | 96 | #1,648 | 51.9 |
| 2016 | 92 | #1,697 | 48.5 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 86 | #1,769 | 44.9 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,234 | 31.2 |
| 2013 | 51 | #2,427 | 27.0 |
| 2012 | 50 | #2,497 | 26.4 |
| 2011 | 43 | #2,759 | 22.6 |
| 2010 | 41 | #2,879 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 41 | #2,905 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 49 | #2,550 | 24.0 |
| 2007 | 76 | #1,879 | 36.6 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,206 | 28.2 |
| 2005 | 64 | #1,965 | 32.0 |
| 2004 | 72 | #1,746 | 36.3 |
| 2003 | 99 | #1,365 | 50.1 |
| 2002 | 107 | #1,268 | 55.1 |
| 2001 | 131 | #1,087 | 67.4 |
| 2000 | 113 | #1,196 | 57.5 |
| 1999 | 85 | #1,382 | 44.3 |
| 1998 | 88 | #1,347 | 46.0 |
| 1997 | 92 | #1,252 | 48.8 |
| 1996 | 73 | #1,422 | 38.5 |
| 1995 | 67 | #1,452 | 35.2 |
| 1994 | 73 | #1,360 | 37.8 |
| 1993 | 57 | #1,573 | 29.1 |
| 1992 | 36 | #2,131 | 18.0 |
| 1991 | 56 | #1,541 | 27.7 |
| 1990 | 42 | #1,839 | 20.4 |
| 1989 | 48 | #1,639 | 24.0 |
| 1988 | 24 | #2,437 | 12.5 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,403 | 12.3 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,791 | 9.8 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,091 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,443 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,654 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,727 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,641 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,395 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,791 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,238 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,224 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 13 | #2,966 | 8.3 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,884 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,247 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,208 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,384 | 5.6 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,098 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,352 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,220 | 2.9 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,008 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Chancellor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chancellor has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 58 years of records.
Girls and boys named Chancellor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chancellor, and how old are they?
2,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,648 Americans ever recorded as Chancellor. The median Chancellor alive today is 23 years old; half are between 12 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,989 people named Chancellor (55 women and girls, 1,934 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,396 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 92 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 560 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 741 |
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 Chancellor born?
The states with the most babies named Chancellor are Texas, North Carolina and Georgia, with 57% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 236 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 153 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 114 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 73 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 57 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 37 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 31 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| South Carolina | 30 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Washington | 29 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Mississippi | 25 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Chancellor is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chancellor is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1916 it was given 1.9 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 Chancellor with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,617 babies since 1880, Chancellor is the most given (73% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 23 babies (100%), again the most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chancellor | 2,648 | 23 | 2001 |
| Chancelor | 841 | under 5 | 1997 |
| Chanceler | 128 | under 5 | 1994 |
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 Chancellor
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 Chancellor and names like it
- Compare Chancellor and ChancelorBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sChancellor peaked in 2001.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chancellor since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Chancellor.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Chancellor alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.