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Chancy

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Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

Chancy has been given to 858 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 1978, with 26 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 76% boys, 24% girls all-time.

Babies named Chancy, 2021

1 in 565,000

Chancy over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Chancy over time

In 2021, Chancy went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

18802021

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.

Chancy: meaning, origin, and history

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

surname transfer

What Chancy means

Chancy is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Chancy is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Chancy is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 649 boys were recorded with the name Chancy between 1880 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1978; its best national rank was #758 in 1880.

In the United States, 209 girls were recorded with the name Chancy between 1974 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1990; its best national rank was #5,326 in 1990.

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.

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How common is Chancy?

Chancy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 565,000
6 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chancy 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 2021 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 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chancy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chancys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chancy was born before 1977 — so the typical Chancy is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
24.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
429
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1980s — 24.3% of all recorded uses (158).

Is Chancy 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 1978 (26)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#758
1880

Spellings of Chancy

Chancy is not the most common spelling — Chance is, with 62.8% against Chancy's 0.75%.

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 Chancy is used

Across 1910–2025, Chancy was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,210,576 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Chancy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chancy 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
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Best rank ever
#758
1880
Peak year
1978
26 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
649
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,326
1990
Peak year
1990
17 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
209
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chancy

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

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Sibling names for Chancy

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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