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Chalmers

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Chalmers has been given to 1,082 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1919, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Chalmers, 2006

1 in 659,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chalmers: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chalmers means

Chalmers is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Chalmers is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Chalmers is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃɑːməz/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,082 boys were recorded with the name Chalmers between 1880 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 38 in 1919; its best national rank was #863 in 1891.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Chalmers?

Chalmers had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 659,000
6 of 3,956,166 births
Among boys only
1 in 343,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
457,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chalmers 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 2006 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 457,035 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chalmers. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chalmerss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chalmers was born before 1929 — so the typical Chalmers is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
25.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
235
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1920s — 25.4% of all recorded uses (275).

Is Chalmers 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (38)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#863
1891

Spellings of Chalmers

Chalmers is not the most common spelling — Chalmer is, with 56.9% against Chalmers's 43.1%.

  • Chalmer56.9%1,427
  • Chalmers43.1%1,082

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 Chalmers is used

Across 1910–2025, Chalmers was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 113,793 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 33,333
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in —

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

Chalmers 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
#863
1891
Peak year
1919
38 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
1,082
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chalmers

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

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Sibling names for Chalmers

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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