Chett
Chett was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,519 among boys’ names; 381 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chett by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chett?
#6,519 among boys’ names, 2025
Chett rose from #8,887 in 2015 to #6,519 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 7.6 per million.
19 babies in 2022, the peak
Chett peaked in 2022, when 19 boys were given it, #5,052 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,519 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,471 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,697 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,052 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,971 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,029 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,253 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,212 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 8 | #8,999 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,225 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #8,887 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,645 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,830 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,031 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,867 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,237 | 3.0 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,734 | 3.4 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,174 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,165 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,942 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,455 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,629 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,154 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,646 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,495 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,590 | 4.2 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,211 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,146 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,318 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,712 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,456 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,578 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,051 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,232 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,622 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,598 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,031 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,470 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,161 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #5,985 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,506 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,250 | 4.5 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,469 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,292 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,663 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,128 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,122 | 2.3 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,288 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Chett a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chett has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chett: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chett, and how old are they?
An estimated 364 Americans named Chett and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 7 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 347 people named Chett (2 women and girls, 345 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 285 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Chett?
Chett is a less common spelling of Chet: SSA has recorded 381 Chett and 6,180 Chet since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,561 babies since 1880, Chett is the second most given (5.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 78 babies (17%), again the second most given.
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 Chett
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 Chett and names like it
- Compare Chett and ChetBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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