Chancelor

Last seen for boys in 2024 at #10,938

Peak · boys
1996 · 44 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
841
since 1977

Chancelor over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Chancelor has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201977peak #1,986, 1996boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025
2024#10,9386
2023
2022#7,76810
2021#6,33513
2020#7,03411
2019#4,95119
2018#4,73920
2017#4,59421
2016#5,78915
2015#6,32413
2014#7,04811
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2012#6,30613
2011#10,8086
2010#5,25117
2009#5,55416
2008#6,39313
2007#4,64020
2006#6,46012
2005#4,82417
2004#3,21730
2003#2,47042
2002#2,68535
2001#2,74234
2000#2,42539
1999#2,56034
1998#2,55233
1997#1,99145
1996#1,98644
1995#2,17837
1994#2,21936
1993#2,86524
1992#2,53228
1991#3,46217
1990#2,69524
1989#3,44616
1988#4,45010
1987#3,52113
1986#4,8538
1985#6,5235
1984#3,45912
1983#4,9077
1982#6,3855
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First appearance
1977

The first year at least five boys were named Chancelor! It came in at #5,845, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1977–1982, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Chancelor is popular in 1977

No state had 5 or more boys named Chancelor in 1977, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Chancelor
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · boys
19 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1977
  • Peaked 1996 at #1,986 (44 births)
  • Births halved by 2005, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 41,892
  • Highest: 1 in 41,892 boys born in 1997 were named Chancelor (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 287,148 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,986 in 1996, was only 1 in 43,052 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 38.3% of all boys named Chancelor (322) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s10#5,845 (1977)#5,951
1980s76#3,446 (1989)#4,693
1990s322#1,986 (1996)#2,504
2000s258#2,425 (2000)#4,141
2010s135#4,594 (2017)#6,201
2020s40#6,335 (2021)#8,019

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.

Chancelor in 1977

boys
#5,845
5 births · 1 in 328,644 boys

Top boys' names in 1977

  1. #1Michael67,587
  2. #2Jason55,631
  3. #3Christopher46,721
  4. #4David40,515
  5. #5James40,040
  6. #6Robert34,214
  7. #7John34,195
  8. #8Brian32,492
  9. #9Matthew31,965
  10. #10Joseph26,483
  11. #5,845Chancelor5
More about 1977

boys

1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 328,644 of them was named Chancelor, which outranked 14.8% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Chancelor
  1. #5,123Zed6
  2. #5,123Zeferino6
  3. #5,123Zerick6
  4. #5,845Chancelor5
  5. #5,845Aashish5
  6. #5,845Abby5
  7. #5,845Abdual5

Tied with 1,016 names at #5,845; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1976
Risers
  1. 5,102Lavar#5,587#485
  2. 4,753Kinte#5,587#834
  3. 969Jedidiah#1,873#904
  4. 811Conor#1,748#937
  5. 704Amin#1,608#904
Fallers
  1. 427Jerimy#963#1,390
  2. 322Demetrios#990#1,312
  3. 246Nakia#790#1,036
  4. 244Baron#977#1,221
  5. 235Hakim#878#1,113

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1977