Chevy
Chevy is given to both girls and boys: 23 girls and 111 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,441 among girls’ names and #1,547 among boys’, #2,898 among all names counting both); 4,677 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,610 Americans named Chevy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chevy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Chevy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Chevy is “a unisex given name”
/ˈʃɛvi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Chevy?
#1,547 among boys’ names, 2025
Chevy fell from #969 in 2015 to #1,547 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.11 to 0.06 per 1,000.
282 babies in 2014, the peak
Chevy peaked in 2014, when 282 babies were given it (237 boys, #906 among boys’ names). The 134 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 48% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,441 | 111 | #1,547 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,482 | 103 | #1,642 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,791 | 90 | #1,789 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,606 | 112 | #1,578 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,630 | 97 | #1,690 |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,559 | 124 | #1,399 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,731 | 147 | #1,271 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,690 | 138 | #1,321 |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,257 | 143 | #1,272 |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,475 | 208 | #980 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 62 | #2,816 | 214 | #969 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,498 | 237 | #906 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,866 | 189 | #1,028 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,655 | 160 | #1,146 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,383 | 145 | #1,209 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,902 | 156 | #1,173 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,592 | 137 | #1,281 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,919 | 135 | #1,287 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,938 | 115 | #1,413 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,957 | 66 | #2,015 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,587 | 63 | #1,983 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,916 | 82 | #1,591 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,950 | 79 | #1,596 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,913 | 58 | #1,918 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,821 | 44 | #2,278 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,056 | 58 | #1,830 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,006 | 43 | #2,169 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,601 | 41 | #2,205 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,162 | 50 | #1,860 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 34 | #2,332 | |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,204 | 42 | #1,989 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,701 | 40 | #2,046 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 30 | #2,455 | |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,700 | 28 | #2,540 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,789 | 26 | #2,613 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 27 | #2,491 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 28 | #2,363 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 13 | #3,736 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 12 | #3,758 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 20 | #2,610 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,966 | 25 | #2,178 |
| 1984 | under 5 | 17 | #2,715 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 9 | #4,185 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 16 | #2,855 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 11 | #3,644 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,666 | 10 | #3,890 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,816 | 25 | #2,055 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,735 | 8 | #4,221 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,883 | 15 | #2,804 |
| 1976 | under 5 | 13 | #2,968 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Chevy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,677 Americans recorded as Chevy, 19% are girls and 81% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Chevy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chevy, and how old are they?
4,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,677 Americans ever recorded as Chevy. The median Chevy alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 3,384 people named Chevy (721 women and girls, 2,663 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,855 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 91 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 399 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,720 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,400 |
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).
Where are babies named Chevy born?
The states with the most babies named Chevy are California, Texas and Tennessee, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 14 | #1,309 | 0.2× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,496 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 8 | #796 | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,011 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,136 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,153 | 0.2× |
| Kentucky | 5 | #730 | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,140 | 0.4× |
Where Chevy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chevy is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1976 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Chevy with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,935 babies since 1880, Chevy is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 134 of their 134 babies (100%), again the 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 Chevy
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 Chevy and names like it
- Compare Chevy and CheveyoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sChevy peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chevy since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Chevy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Chevy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.