Chaney — #7236 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Chaney

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,356 babies named Chaney between 1886 and 2024, spanning 139 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Chaney currently holds the #7236 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 57 babies received it in a single year. Chaney is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 411 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chaney performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 361 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Chaney shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 93 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Chaney in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chaney 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 1,356 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.