Chapman
#3,772 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Chapman has been given to 1,007 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #3,772 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 32 recorded.
Babies named Chapman, 2025
1 in 114,000
Chapman 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Chapman?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 114,000
- 29 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 58,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,772
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 79,239 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Chapman sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chapman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Chapmans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Chapman was born before 2002 — so the typical Chapman is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 22.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 52.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 819
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (224).
Is Chapman 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
- +813
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,723
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −70
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 90.6%
- Peak was 2014 (32)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.9% average annual change
Spellings of Chapman
Chapman is not the most common spelling — Carman is, with 26.1% against Chapman's 24.2%.
Where Chapman is used
Across 1910–2025, Chapman was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 221,983 across all states with data. It was least common in Alabama (1 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. Chapman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Chapman around the world
Where Chapman 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 & Wales2020–2020#4,608in 2020
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Chapman by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Chapman
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Chapman
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.