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Chancellor

#4,420 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Chancellor has been given to 2,648 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #4,420 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 131 recorded.

Babies named Chancellor, 2025

1 in 144,000

Chancellor over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chancellor: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chancellor means

Chancellor is a given name.

The naming story behind Chancellor

Wikidata records Chancellor as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q56675831, 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, 2,643 boys were recorded with the name Chancellor between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 131 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,087 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,439 in 2020 to #4,420 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,769 in 2015 to #4,420 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Chancellor between 2018 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2018; its best national rank was #16,184 in 2018.

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 Chancellor?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,420
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chancellor 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chancellor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chancellors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chancellor was born before 2003 — so the typical Chancellor is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,638
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Choose a decade

2000s — 30.6% of all recorded uses (810).

Is Chancellor 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
−328
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,981
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,651
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.27×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.6%
Peak was 2001 (131)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,087
2001

Spellings of Chancellor

Chancellor is the most-used spelling, taking 75.9% of the 3,484 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 Chancellor is used

Across 2016–2025, Chancellor was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 47,154 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 12,500
  2. 2Georgia1 in 14,286
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 16,667
  4. 4Virginia1 in 25,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 33,333
  6. 6Texas1 in 33,333
  7. 7Washington1 in 33,333
  8. 8Indiana1 in 50,000

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.

Chancellor around the world

Where Chancellor 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.

  • Canada
    1996–2001
    #1,795
    in 2001

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Chancellor by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,420
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,981
Best rank ever
#1,087
2001
Peak year
2001
131 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,643
Count in 2025
23

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#16,184
2018
Peak year
2018
5 that year
First recorded
2018
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chancellor

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

ChancelorCharlestonChadrickCharltonCharlotteChandlorChanningChaytonChampionChaunceyChanceyChadwickChayseChayceChapmanChasenChayanneChasetonCharbelChalmersCharlyChamberlainChastonChason

Names with a curve like Chancellor

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

AkashMahmoudJalilAshwinMckayDemitriDmitriYonatanSaadKeionBladeKamil

Sibling names for Chancellor

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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