Chauncy
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Chauncy has been given to 1,290 babies in the U.S. since 1883. 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 33 recorded.
Babies named Chauncy, 2024
1 in 418,000
Chauncy 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Chauncy?
Chauncy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 418,000
- 8 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 215,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 289,633 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Chauncy sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chauncy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Chauncys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Chauncy was born before 1984 — so the typical Chauncy is around 41 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 22.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 21.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,077
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (279).
Is Chauncy 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1978 (33)
- Years since peak
- 47
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.4% average annual change
Spellings of Chauncy
Chauncy is not the most common spelling — Chance is, with 79.3% against Chauncy's 1.8%.
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 Chauncy is used
Across 1910–2025, Chauncy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,776,845 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3Texas1 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. Chauncy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Chauncy by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Chauncy
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Chauncy
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.