Chancelor
Chancelor was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 841 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chancelor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chancelor?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,182, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 1997, the peak
Chancelor peaked in 1997, when 45 boys were given it, #1,992 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #11,182 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,853 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,387 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,115 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 19 | #4,990 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,769 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,618 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,828 | 7.9 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,388 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,148 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 13 | #6,368 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,054 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,284 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,598 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,452 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,664 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,522 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,854 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 30 | #3,223 | 15.1 |
| 2003 | 42 | #2,478 | 21.3 |
| 2002 | 35 | #2,693 | 18.0 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,747 | 17.5 |
| 2000 | 39 | #2,430 | 19.9 |
| 1999 | 34 | #2,562 | 17.7 |
| 1998 | 33 | #2,561 | 17.3 |
| 1997 | 45 | #1,992 | 23.9 |
| 1996 | 44 | #1,987 | 23.2 |
| 1995 | 37 | #2,176 | 19.4 |
| 1994 | 36 | #2,222 | 18.6 |
| 1993 | 24 | #2,875 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 28 | #2,539 | 14.0 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,477 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 24 | #2,704 | 11.7 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,469 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,494 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,552 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,915 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,680 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,490 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,004 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,516 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,190 | 2.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #5,975 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Chancelor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chancelor has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chancelor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chancelor, and how old are they?
An estimated 819 Americans named Chancelor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 665 people named Chancelor (16 women and girls, 649 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 789 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,617 babies since 1880, Chancelor is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 none of their 23 babies recorded by SSA was a Chancelor (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
| 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 Chancelor
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 Chancelor and names like it
- Compare Chancelor and ChancellorBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sChancelor peaked in 1997.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chancelor since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Chancelor.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Chancelor alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.