Chauncy
Chauncy was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 1,290 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Chauncy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 26 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chauncy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chauncy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,138, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
40 babies in 1980, the peak
Chauncy peaked in 1980, when 40 babies were given it (31 boys, #1,815 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #9,138 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,967 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,924 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,017 | 3.3 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,531 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,916 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,641 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,670 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 8 | #8,995 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,709 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (92)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 11 | #7,151 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,363 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,091 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,667 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,703 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,660 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,140 | 10.6 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,071 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,134 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,320 | 9.3 |
| 2000 | 20 | #3,929 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,713 | 10.4 |
| 1998 | 33 | #2,563 | 17.3 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,361 | 11.1 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,248 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 22 | #3,107 | 11.6 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,337 | 10.4 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,252 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,472 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 22 | #2,915 | 10.9 |
| 1990 | 28 | #2,439 | 13.6 |
| 1989 | 30 | #2,246 | 15.0 |
| 1988 | 26 | #2,310 | 13.6 |
| 1987 | 27 | #2,171 | 14.5 |
| 1986 | 30 | #1,963 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 27 | #2,078 | 14.6 |
| 1984 | 27 | #1,986 | 15.0 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,419 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 29 | #1,899 | 16.0 |
| 1981 | 32 | #1,774 | 17.9 |
| 1980 | 31 | #1,815 | 17.4 |
| 1979 | 23 | #2,165 | 13.4 |
| 1978 | 33 | #1,659 | 20.1 |
| 1977 | 23 | #2,074 | 14.0 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,432 | 11.5 |
| 1975 | 20 | #2,215 | 12.8 |
| 1974 | 21 | #2,060 | 13.4 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,137 | 12.2 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,389 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,295 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,755 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,097 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,757 | 5.8 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,291 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,488 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 12 | #2,386 | 6.5 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,688 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,889 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,697 | 4.8 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,159 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,385 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,043 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,625 | 2.8 |
| 1954 | 5 | #3,908 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,560 | 5.1 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,771 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,754 | 2.8 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,197 | 4.9 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,605 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,629 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,733 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,887 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 5 | #3,853 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,335 | 6.4 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,730 | 8.9 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,368 | 11.5 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,293 | 7.4 |
| 1921 | 6 | #3,941 | 5.4 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,539 | 6.6 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,259 | 5.1 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,574 | 10.9 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,577 | 10.8 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,286 | 13.5 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,138 | 8.2 |
| 1914 | 6 | #2,974 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,895 | 9.8 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,326 | 14.0 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,373 | 34.1 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,172 | 40.8 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,109 | 43.2 |
| 1890 | 6 | #905 | 54.0 |
| 1883 | 7 | #736 | 66.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Chauncy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,290 Americans recorded as Chauncy, 3% are girls and 97% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Chauncy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chauncy, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 81% of the 1,290 Americans ever recorded as Chauncy. The median Chauncy alive today is 38 years old; half are between 26 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 918 people named Chauncy (115 women and girls, 803 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,055 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 55 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 254 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 388 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 278 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 62 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
How common is the spelling Chauncy?
Chauncy is a less common spelling of Chauncey: SSA has recorded 1,290 Chauncy and 10,193 Chauncey since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 70,315 babies since 1880, Chauncy is the fourth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 763 babies recorded by SSA was a Chauncy (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.
More about Chauncy and names like it
- Compare Chauncy and ChaunceyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sChauncy peaked in 1980.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chauncy since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Chauncy.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chauncy alive today were born 1981-1996.
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