Chosen
#1,911 for girls in 2025, 101 births · #555 for boys in 2025, 540 births
Given to boys 80.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 540 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,248since 2003
Chosen over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,911 | 101 | #555 | 540 |
| 2024 | #1,966 | 100 | #619 | 462 |
| 2023 | #2,076 | 93 | #669 | 407 |
| 2022 | #2,445 | 74 | #895 | 262 |
| 2021 | #3,491 | 44 | #1,307 | 143 |
| 2020 | #3,676 | 40 | #1,473 | 116 |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 | #1,823 | 83 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | #1,937 | 76 |
| 2017 | #5,661 | 22 | #2,186 | 61 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #8,040 | 9 |
| 2014 | — | #7,562 | 10 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | — | #6,626 | 12 | |
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| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | — | #7,187 | 11 | |
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| 2006 | — | #10,662 | 6 | |
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| 2003 | — | #9,581 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Chosen! It came in at #9,581, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2004–2005, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Chosen
- 64 spots since 2024 (#619 → #555)
- 918 spots since 2020 (#1,473 → #555)
- 7,485 spots since 2015 (#8,040 → #555)
- Biggest jump: 412 spots in 2022 (#1,307 → #895)
- Debuted 2003
- Peaked 2025 at #555 (540 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2022–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,163 boys born in 2025 were named Chosen (0.03%)
- 85.9% of all boys named Chosen (1,930) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2015, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 29 | #7,187 (2008) | #9,606 |
| 2010s | 289 | #1,823 (2019) | #5,169 |
| 2020s | 1,930 | #555 (2025) | #920 |
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.
Chosen in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 83,918 of them was named Chosen, which outranked 66.8% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,798Zeinab21
- #5,798Zema21
- #5,798Zuleyma21
- #5,986Chosen20
- #5,986Aara20
- #5,986Aaron20
- #5,986Adel20
- #6,176Aairah19
- #6,176Aariah19
- #6,176Abrar19
Tied with 189 names at #5,986; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 21,617 of them was named Chosen, which outranked 87.1% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,816Indiana84
- #1,816Tiberius84
- #1,816Zaine84
- #1,823Chosen83
- #1,823Abdirahman83
- #1,823Brogan83
- #1,823Cove83
- #1,842Jionni82
- #1,842Lake82
- #1,842Lamont82
Tied with 18 names at #1,823; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.