Chosen
Chosen is given to both girls and boys: 101 girls and 540 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,913 among girls’ names and #555 among boys’, #962 among all names counting both); 2,794 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,780 Americans named Chosen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 3 years old and half are between 2 and 5.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chosen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chosen?
#555 among boys’ names, 2025
Chosen rose from #8,156 in 2015 to #555 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.00 to 0.32 per 1,000.
641 babies in 2025, the peak
Chosen peaked in 2025, when 641 babies were given it (540 boys, #555 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 462 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 101 | #1,913 | 540 | #555 |
| 2024 | 100 | #1,970 | 462 | #619 |
| 2023 | 93 | #2,080 | 407 | #669 |
| 2022 | 74 | #2,451 | 262 | #895 |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,500 | 143 | #1,309 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,698 | 116 | #1,474 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,026 | 83 | #1,825 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,860 | 76 | #1,939 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,698 | 61 | #2,193 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,717 | 31 | #3,539 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,086 | 9 | #8,156 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 10 | #7,648 | |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,112 | 7 | #9,834 |
| 2012 | under 5 | 12 | #6,688 | |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,680 | 6 | #11,241 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 11 | #7,281 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 6 | #10,901 | |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,305 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 6 | #9,779 |
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 Chosen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,794 Americans recorded as Chosen, 20% are girls and 80% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Chosen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chosen, and how old are they?
2,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,794 Americans ever recorded as Chosen. The median Chosen alive today is 3 years old; half are between 2 and 5.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 55 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,720 |
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.
Where are babies named Chosen born?
The states with the most babies named Chosen are Georgia, Texas and Florida, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 92 | #162 | 3.6× |
| Texas | 67 | #546 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 57 | #423 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 36 | #326 | 1.9× |
| New York | 34 | #587 | 0.6× |
| California | 29 | #963 | 0.3× |
| South Carolina | 25 | #227 | 2.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #551 | 0.7× |
| Alabama | 21 | #339 | 2.0× |
| Virginia | 19 | #412 | 0.9× |
Where Chosen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chosen is most over-represented in Georgia: since 2003 it was given 3.6 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 Chosen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Chosen
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 Chosen and names like it
- Compare Chosen and PsalmBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sChosen peaked in 2025.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chosen since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Chosen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Chosen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.