Chae
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Chae has been given to 323 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 1988, with 24 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 54% girls, 46% boys all-time.
Babies named Chae, 2005
1 in 641,000
Chae over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Chae over time
In 2005, Chae went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Chae?
Chae had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2005
- 1 in 641,000
- 6 of 3,844,258 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 308,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2005
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 444,107 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Chae sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 444,107 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Chaes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Chae was born before 1991 — so the typical Chae is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 44.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 175
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (77).
Is Chae 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1988 (24)
- Years since peak
- 37
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.9% average annual change
Spellings of Chae
Chae is not the most common spelling — Chloe is, with 46.6% against Chae's 0.03%.
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.
Chae around the world
Where Chae 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 & Wales2000–2004#3,725in 2004
- South Australia1983–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Chae by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Chae
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Chae
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.