Chavis

Last seen for boys in 2024 at #10,938

Peak · boys
1980 · 41 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
901
since 1957

Chavis over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201985peak #1,496, 1980boys
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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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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025
2024#10,9386
2023
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2021
2020#10,6056
2019#9,7567
2018#7,13611
2017#9,6967
2016#10,7446
2015#12,0865
2014#7,56210
2013#10,7286
2012#10,7706
2011#5,43316
2010
2009#6,09514
2008#7,18711
2007#6,62212
2006#6,46012
2005#6,22612
2004#5,81313
2003#7,8318
2002#5,39513
2001#3,61723
2000#3,76421
1999#4,76214
1998#3,70819
1997#3,16023
1996#4,18515
1995#2,84725
1994#2,39232
1993#2,00740
1992#4,56412
1991#1,95239
1990#2,55326
1989#2,20631
1988#1,98932
1987#2,40023
1986#2,05728
1985#1,76434
1984#1,69034
1983#2,27222
1982#2,11125
1981#2,33821
1980#1,49641
1979#2,15723
1978#2,47318
1977#2,27020
1976#2,41718
1975#3,42810
1974#3,12011
1973#3,6948
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1970#3,07110
1969#4,4045
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First appearance
1957

The first year at least five boys were named Chavis! It came in at #3,552, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1958–1969, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Chavis
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · boys
23 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1957
  • Peaked 1980 at #1,496 (41 births)
  • Births halved by 1992, 12 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 43,511
  • Highest: 1 in 43,511 boys born in 1980 were named Chavis (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 287,148 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1980s
  • 32.3% of all boys named Chavis (291) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s6#3,552 (1957)#3,552
1960s10#4,136 (1968)#4,270
1970s124#2,157 (1979)#3,001
1980s291#1,496 (1980)#2,032
1990s245#1,952 (1991)#3,213
2000s139#3,617 (2001)#5,901
2010s74#5,433 (2011)#9,323
2020s12#10,605 (2020)#10,772

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.

Chavis in 1985

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#1,764
34 births · 1 in 54,359 boys

Top boys' names in 1985

  1. #1Michael64,934
  2. #2Christopher59,609
  3. #3Matthew47,075
  4. #4Joshua42,194
  5. #5Daniel38,559
  6. #6David38,522
  7. #7James35,862
  8. #8Robert32,094
  9. #9John31,502
  10. #10Joseph30,222
  11. #1,764Chavis34
More about 1985

boys

1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 54,359 of them was named Chavis, which outranked 76.7% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Chavis
  1. #1,724Winfred35
  2. #1,724Yancy35
  3. #1,724Zacharia35
  4. #1,764Chavis34
  5. #1,764Corwin34
  6. #1,764Creighton34
  7. #1,764Dawson34
  8. #1,794Anh33
  9. #1,794Armen33
  10. #1,794Aryeh33

Tied with 29 names at #1,764; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1984
Risers
  1. 2,425Jaymes#3,270#845
  2. 977Trace#1,933#956
  3. 933Durrell#1,656#723
  4. 793Durell#1,399#606
  5. 562Brandyn#1,444#882
Fallers
  1. 420Anwar#951#1,371
  2. 345Zebulon#976#1,321
  3. 303Tavares#925#1,228
  4. 250Alonso#931#1,181
  5. 228Abdul#1,000#1,228

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

See the top 100 for 1985