Chapin
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Chapin has been given to 278 babies in the U.S. since 1922. 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 1986, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 84% boys, 16% girls all-time.
Babies named Chapin, 2015
1 in 617,000
Chapin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Chapin over time
In 2015, Chapin went to 0% girls and 100% 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 Chapin?
Chapin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 617,000
- 6 of 3,701,574 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 319,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 427,624 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Chapin sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chapin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Chapins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Chapin was born before 1992 — so the typical Chapin is around 33 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 33.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 57.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 217
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (79).
Is Chapin 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1986 (14)
- Years since peak
- 39
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.2% average annual change
Spellings of Chapin
Chapin is not the most common spelling — Chaim is, with 38.5% against Chapin's 0.74%.
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.
Chapin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Chapin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Chapin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.