Chancy

Last seen for girls in 2014 at #16,513 · Last seen for boys in 2021 at #10,799
Given to boys 75.6% of the time

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Peak · boys
1890 · 8 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
649
since 1880

Chancy over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201883peak #5,286, 1990peak #739, 1890girlsboys
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
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2022——
2021—#10,7996
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2018——
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2015——
2014#16,5135—
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2011——
2010—#12,2315
2009——
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2005—#11,4725
2004——
2003—#8,6437
2002#12,1877—
2001——
2000#15,0315#9,1126
1999#12,6886#7,1398
1998—#8,4796
1997#12,0706#4,96012
1996—#6,4968
1995—#5,50110
1994#10,5697#4,53713
1993#8,05210#5,7719
1992#10,4797#7,4226
1991#11,5096#5,5219
1990#5,28617#4,16713
1989#10,8476#4,27112
1988#9,2447#3,70513
1987#7,9878#3,20115
1986#7,1349#3,13115
1985#6,03111#2,42721
1984#5,53912#2,82416
1983—#3,88410
1982#8,2247#3,10814
1981#6,32310#2,49619
1980#5,54412#2,21323
1979#6,6969#2,66917
1978#5,56311#1,91326
1977#8,4446#2,79115
1976#7,2967#2,24520
1975#6,4848#3,6599
1974#5,36010#2,54915
1973—#3,01311
1972—#4,9865
1971—#3,9637
1970—#4,7245
1969—#4,4045
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1960—#4,0385
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1950—#2,7708
1949—#3,2986
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1945—#2,9966
1944—#3,1096
1943—#3,5385
1942—#3,2126
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1939—#3,1136
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1937—#3,1756
1936—#3,1476
1935—#3,2526
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1932—#3,7765
1931—#3,7635
1930—#3,5926
1929—#3,5596
1928—#3,0768
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1926—#3,7086
1925—#2,58811
1924—#2,82210
1923—#4,2395
1922—#2,63011
1921—#3,5177
1920—#3,4897
1919—#2,51111
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1916—#3,5166
1915—#2,6219
1914—#2,9156
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1911—#1,7405
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1905—#1,2335
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1893—#1,0355
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1890—#7398
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1885—#8366
1884—#7647
1883—#8925
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1880—#7457
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Chancy was already there! It came in at #745, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1881–1883, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Chancy is popular in 1883

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Chancy
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2021
  • Biggest jump: 128 spots in 1884 (#892 → #764)
  • Biggest drop: 72 spots in 1885 (#764 → #836)
Rise & fade · boys
10 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1890 at #739 (8 births)
  • Births halved by 1891, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 5 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1883–1885
Share of babies · boys
1 in 13,878
  • Highest: 1 in 13,878 boys born in 1890 were named Chancy (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 291,580 boys born in 2021 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1980s
  • 24.3% of all boys named Chancy (158) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2021
  • Mostly girls until 2020, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s25#745 (1880)#809
1890s13#739 (1890)#887
1900s5#1,233 (1905)#1,233
1910s37#1,740 (1911)#2,661
1920s71#2,588 (1925)#3,292
1930s40#3,113 (1939)#3,403
1940s29#2,996 (1945)#3,231
1950s8#2,770 (1950)#2,770
1960s10#4,038 (1960)#4,221
1970s130#1,913 (1978)#3,251
1980s158#2,213 (1980)#3,126
1990s94#4,167 (1990)#5,999
2000s18#8,643 (2003)#9,742
2010s5#12,231 (2010)#12,231
2020s6#10,799 (2021)#10,799

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.

Chancy in 1883

boys
#892
5 births · 1 in 20,925 boys

Top boys' names in 1883

  1. #1John8,894
  2. #2William8,387
  3. #3James5,223
  4. #4Charles4,826
  5. #5George4,736
  6. #6Frank2,986
  7. #7Joseph2,515
  8. #8Henry2,383
  9. #9Robert2,334
  10. #10Thomas2,316
  11. #892Chancy5
More about 1883

boys

104,625 boys got a published name in 1883; 1 in 20,925 of them was named Chancy, which outranked 13.4% of the 1,030 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 42.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Chancy
  1. #799Wyatt6
  2. #799Zeke6
  3. #799Zeno6
  4. #892Chancy5
  5. #892Albertus5
  6. #892Alcide5
  7. #892Alec5

Tied with 138 names at #892; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1882
Risers
  1. ↑ 416Sumner#943 → #527
  2. ↑ 377Alf#837 → #460
  3. ↑ 358Arlie#837 → #479
  4. ↑ 358Everette#837 → #479
  5. ↑ 346Ocie#943 → #597
Fallers
  1. ↓ 429Morton#370 → #799
  2. ↓ 423Saul#469 → #892
  3. ↓ 403Pierce#489 → #892
  4. ↓ 378Bryant#514 → #892
  5. ↓ 352Buck#540 → #892

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

See the top 100 for 1883 →