Chaney

Where Chaney comes from

Variant of Chesney.
— Wiktionary's entry for Chaney
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1886
    First appearance
    #1,108 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1888
    Peak, #959
    8 babies named Chaney — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1977
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

No widely known Chaney turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.