Chasta
Chasta was last recorded in 2001, when 7 babies were given it; 313 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chasta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chasta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,308, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 1976, the peak
Chasta peaked in 1976, when 26 girls were given it, #2,876 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 7 | #12,308 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,763 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,971 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,825 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,792 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,811 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,032 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,074 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,414 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,605 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 14 | #5,650 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,476 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,682 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,688 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,959 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,713 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,257 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,370 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,176 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,140 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,797 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,629 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,876 | 17.7 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,045 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,765 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,608 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,473 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,515 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chasta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chasta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chasta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chasta, and how old are they?
An estimated 301 Americans named Chasta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 38 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 286 people named Chasta (284 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 304 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 25,222 babies since 1880, Chasta is the third most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 30 babies recorded by SSA was a Chasta (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Chasta
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 Chasta and names like it
- Compare Chasta and ChasityBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sChasta peaked in 1976.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Chasta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chasta alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.