Chandler

Where Chandler comes from

The dictionaries list Chandler as a given name — a unisex given name transferred from the surname — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • From a surname
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,310 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1994
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1998
    Chandler Canterbury born
    American actor
  4. 1999
    Chandler Riggs born
    American actor
  5. 1999
    Peak, #151
    2,395 babies named Chandler — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2004
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #282.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Chandler Riggs · American actor, born 1999
  • Chandler Canterbury · American actor, born 1998
  • Chandler Parsons · American basketball player, born 1988
  • Chandler Stephenson · Canadian ice hockey forward, born 1994
  • Chandler Massey · American actor, born 1990

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.