Chauncey — #2945 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Chauncey

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,661 babies named Chauncey between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Chauncey currently holds the #2945 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 173 babies received it in a single year. Chauncey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 508 additional births since 1917.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chauncey performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 1,410 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Chauncey shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 612 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Chauncey in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chauncey 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 9,661 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.