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Chadd

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Chadd has been given to 2,456 babies in the U.S. since 1957. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1989, with 105 recorded.

Babies named Chadd, 2017

1 in 596,000

Chadd over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chadd: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chadd means

Chadd is a given name.

The naming story behind Chadd

Wikidata records Chadd as a given name. The entity identifier is Q29018614, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,456 boys were recorded with the name Chadd between 1957 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 105 in 1989; its best national rank was #816 in 1972.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Chadd?

Chadd had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 596,000
6 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 308,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
413,245 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chadd sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chadd. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chadds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chadd was born before 1983 — so the typical Chadd is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
34.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,456
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 34.7% of all recorded uses (852).

Is Chadd rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1989 (105)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#816
1972

Spellings of Chadd

Chadd is not the most common spelling — Chad is, with 45.7% against Chadd's 0.47%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Chadd is used

Across 1910–2025, Chadd was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 125,622 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 50,000
  2. 2Ohio1 in 50,000
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Iowa1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8Nebraska1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Chadd has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chadd around the world

Where Chadd ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2000
    #3,036
    in 2000
  • Canada
    1991–1998
    #1,953
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1972–2001
    #581
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Chadd in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Chadd. Linked forms have their own page here.

Chad

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Chadd by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#816
1972
Peak year
1989
105 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
2,456
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chadd

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ChazzChampChaceChayseChayceChasenChasCharlyChasonChanseChaelChaimChanChaytonChavezChazChanceyChadrickChapmanChaiCharltonLaddChanzeChantz

Names with a curve like Chadd

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Chadd, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ChadrickCorryJeremeMelissaJeremeyKristenJeramieJermainKristofferBrandyJermeyStephanie

Sibling names for Chadd

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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