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Chadwick

#4,152 in 2025Boys' name

Settlement belonging to Chad

Chadwick has been given to 13,298 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #4,152 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1975, with 707 recorded.

Babies named Chadwick, 2025

1 in 133,000

Chadwick over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chadwick: meaning, origin, and history

Settlement belonging to Chad

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chadwick means

Chadwick means “settlement belonging to Chad”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Derived from Old English Ċeadda (“Chad”) + Old Norse vík.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Chadwick (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Chadwick is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Chadwick is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃædwɪk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,276 boys were recorded with the name Chadwick between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 707 in 1975; its best national rank was #272 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,586 in 2020 to #4,152 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,974 in 2015 to #4,152 in 2025.

In the United States, 22 girls were recorded with the name Chadwick between 1972 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1975; its best national rank was #7,267 in 1975.

How common is Chadwick?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 68,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,152
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chadwick 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 2025 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chadwick. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chadwicks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chadwick was born before 1979 — so the typical Chadwick is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
43.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
12,956
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 43.0% of all recorded uses (5,709).

Is Chadwick 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
+65
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−566
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,178
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.5%
Peak was 1975 (707)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#272
1975

Spellings of Chadwick

Chadwick is the most-used spelling, taking 81.8% of the 16,232 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Chadwick is used

Across 1910–2025, Chadwick was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 4,348 boys, against 1 in 15,658 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

023 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 4,348
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 5,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 5,556
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 5,882
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 6,250
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 6,667
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 6,667
  8. 8Kentucky1 in 7,692

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. Chadwick has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chadwick around the world

Where Chadwick 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
    2002–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • France
    2023–2023
    #5,437
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1953–1994
    #531
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Chadwick

People whose public names include Chadwick, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Chadwick in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Chadwick. 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.

Chadwick by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,152
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 566
Best rank ever
#272
1975
Peak year
1975
707 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,276
Count in 2025
25

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,267
1975
Peak year
1975
7 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chadwick

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

ChadrickChaunceyChanningChandlerCharltonCharleyChaddrickKendrickDomenickChaimRodrickBroderickDarrickRoderickChaytonCedrickMerrickFredrickDominickChampionGarrickChanceMaverickDedrick

Names with a curve like Chadwick

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

ErinHeathTorreyJeromyDarrickJenniferJameyJasenAshleyDemondShadBrain

Sibling names for Chadwick

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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