Chandler — #738 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Chandler

The Social Security Administration has registered 36,147 babies named Chandler between 1900 and 2024, spanning 125 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Chandler currently holds the #738 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 2,395 babies received it in a single year. Chandler is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 10,088 additional births since 1962.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chandler performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 12,968 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Chandler shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 2,982 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Chandler in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chandler 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 36,147 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.