Chan
Last seen for girls in 2003 at #15,784 · #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
Given to boys 83.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1965 · 20 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,035since 1919
Chan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #9,714 | 7 | |
| 2024 | — | #10,938 | 6 | |
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | — | #8,990 | 8 | |
| 2021 | — | #12,146 | 5 | |
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | — | #8,889 | 8 | |
| 2018 | — | #7,136 | 11 | |
| 2017 | — | #7,095 | 11 | |
| 2016 | — | #6,349 | 13 | |
| 2015 | — | #10,644 | 6 | |
| 2014 | — | #9,642 | 7 | |
| 2013 | — | #8,789 | 8 | |
| 2012 | — | #9,709 | 7 | |
| 2011 | — | #9,600 | 7 | |
| 2010 | — | #10,766 | 6 | |
| 2009 | — | #8,985 | 8 | |
| 2008 | — | — | ||
| 2007 | — | #7,094 | 11 | |
| 2006 | — | #10,662 | 6 | |
| 2005 | — | #7,640 | 9 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,813 | 13 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #4,815 | 16 |
| 2002 | — | #5,725 | 12 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,476 | 17 | |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #5,920 | 11 |
| 1999 | — | #6,042 | 10 | |
| 1998 | — | #9,631 | 5 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,738 | 18 | |
| 1996 | — | #6,496 | 8 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,791 | 12 | |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #3,819 | 16 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #3,604 | 17 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | #3,325 | 18 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | #2,952 | 21 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #2,989 | 20 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #3,203 | 16 |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 | #2,333 | 24 |
| 1986 | #5,188 | 14 | #2,290 | 24 |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 | #2,357 | 22 |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 | #2,437 | 20 |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 | #2,912 | 15 |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 | #2,207 | 23 |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | #2,496 | 19 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #2,831 | 16 |
| 1979 | — | #3,357 | 12 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,070 | 13 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,836 | 9 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,709 | 15 | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #2,450 | 17 |
| 1974 | — | #2,549 | 15 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,311 | 17 | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #2,080 | 19 |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | #2,464 | 15 |
| 1970 | — | #1,847 | 23 | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | #1,810 | 21 |
| 1968 | — | #2,907 | 9 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,352 | 12 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,043 | 15 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,774 | 20 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,902 | 18 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,077 | 8 | |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | #3,988 | 5 |
| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 | #2,265 | 13 |
| 1957 | — | #2,822 | 9 | |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | #2,168 | 14 |
| 1955 | — | #1,845 | 18 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,449 | 11 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,905 | 8 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,680 | 9 | |
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | — | #2,453 | 10 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,862 | 8 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,690 | 8 | |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | #2,405 | 10 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,940 | 7 | |
| 1941 | — | — | ||
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| 1939 | — | #2,609 | 8 | |
| 1938 | — | — | ||
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| 1935 | — | #2,529 | 9 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,973 | 7 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,004 | 7 | |
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | — | #3,959 | 5 | |
| 1928 | — | #3,357 | 7 | |
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| 1921 | — | #3,517 | 7 | |
| 1920 | — | — | ||
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Chan! It came in at #3,736, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1920, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Chan
- 1,224 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #9,714)
- 930 spots since 2015 (#10,644 → #9,714)
- Debuted 1919
- Peaked 1965 at #1,774 (20 births)
- Births halved by 1968, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 76,730 boys born in 1986 were named Chan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,774 in 1965, was only 1 in 93,007 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 19.2% of all boys named Chan (199) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1983, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | #3,736 (1919) | #3,736 |
| 1920s | 19 | #3,357 (1928) | #3,611 |
| 1930s | 38 | #2,529 (1935) | #2,842 |
| 1940s | 48 | #2,405 (1943) | #2,836 |
| 1950s | 87 | #1,845 (1955) | #2,640 |
| 1960s | 127 | #1,774 (1965) | #2,519 |
| 1970s | 155 | #1,847 (1970) | #2,667 |
| 1980s | 199 | #2,207 (1982) | #2,606 |
| 1990s | 143 | #2,952 (1990) | #4,799 |
| 2000s | 103 | #4,476 (2001) | #6,792 |
| 2010s | 84 | #6,349 (2016) | #8,862 |
| 2020s | 26 | #8,990 (2022) | #10,447 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Chan in 1969
Top girls' names in 1969
Top boys' names in 1969
More about 1969
girls
1,687,016 girls got a published name in 1969; 1 in 337,403 of them was named Chan, which outranked 14.2% of the 8,708 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,237 names at #7,471; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,788,174 boys got a published name in 1969; 1 in 85,151 of them was named Chan, which outranked 64.1% of the 5,043 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 27.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,767Vann22
- #1,767Vernard22
- #1,767Zackary22
- #1,810Chan21
- #1,810Alford21
- #1,810Anastacio21
- #1,810Barclay21
- #1,861Alaric20
- #1,861Anselmo20
- #1,861Arlan20
Tied with 50 names at #1,810; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 449Artis#877 → #1,326
- ↓ 410Kennedy#986 → #1,396
- ↓ 408Alfie#968 → #1,376
- ↓ 360Micky#861 → #1,221
- ↓ 356Montgomery#946 → #1,302
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.