Chapman
Chapman was given to 29 boys in 2025, #3,772 among boys’ names; 1,007 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chapman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chapman?
#3,772 among boys’ names, 2025
Chapman fell from #3,702 in 2015 to #3,772 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 15.1 to 17.0 per million.
32 babies in 2014, the peak
Chapman peaked in 2014, when 32 boys were given it, #3,385 among boys’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 91% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #3,772 | 17.0 |
| 2024 | 22 | #4,585 | 12.8 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,017 | 15.8 |
| 2022 | 26 | #4,107 | 14.9 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,385 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,495 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 19 | #4,991 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,248 | 13.2 |
| 2017 | 30 | #3,596 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,703 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,702 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,385 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,005 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,510 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,651 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,783 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,774 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,113 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,467 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 11 | #6,984 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,212 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 22 | #4,029 | 11.1 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,298 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,527 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,145 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,782 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,179 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,444 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,903 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,039 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,554 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,510 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,051 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,767 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,145 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,510 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,831 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,543 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,112 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 11 | #3,915 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 10 | #3,962 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,596 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,520 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,026 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,511 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,589 | 3.2 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,612 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,032 | 2.8 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,126 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,354 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,406 | 3.3 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,722 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,623 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,257 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 5 | #3,961 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,503 | 2.9 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,417 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,797 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,769 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,361 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,815 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,423 | 3.3 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,396 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,763 | 5.6 |
| 1941 | 7 | #2,913 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,533 | 4.3 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,645 | 7.2 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,627 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,592 | 8.7 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,433 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,504 | 9.6 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,084 | 4.6 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,054 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,770 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 9 | #2,945 | 8.0 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,594 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 6 | #3,950 | 5.3 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,055 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,019 | 8.2 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,399 | 4.7 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,169 | 14.3 |
| 1918 | 6 | #3,795 | 5.9 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,480 | 11.8 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,893 | 9.8 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,782 | 22.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Chapman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chapman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 85 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chapman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chapman, and how old are they?
An estimated 807 Americans named Chapman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 9 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 815 people named Chapman (63 women and girls, 752 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 695 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Chapman
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 Chapman and names like it
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