Chaska — boys' name

What the Data Says About Chaska

The Social Security Administration has registered 67 babies named Chaska between 1976 and 2014, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Chaska currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 10 babies received it in a single year. Chaska is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 10 additional births since 1977.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chaska performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 35 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Chaska shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chaska 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 67 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.