Chatham — #7924 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Chatham

The Social Security Administration has registered 155 babies named Chatham between 1984 and 2024, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Chatham currently holds the #7924 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Chatham is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 44 additional births since 2003.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chatham performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 81 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Chatham shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Chatham in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chatham 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 155 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.