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Chosen

#555 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Chosen has been given to 2,794 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #555 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 540 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 80% boys, 20% girls all-time.

Babies named Chosen, 2025

1 in 6,140

Chosen over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Chosen went to 16% girls and 84% boys.

20032025

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.

Chosen: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chosen means

Chosen is a given name.

The naming story behind Chosen

Wikidata records Chosen as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q84262193, 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, 2,248 boys were recorded with the name Chosen between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 540 in 2025; its best national rank was #555 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,474 in 2020 to #555 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,156 in 2015 to #555 in 2025.

In the United States, 546 girls were recorded with the name Chosen between 2005 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 101 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,913 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,698 in 2020 to #1,913 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,086 in 2015 to #1,913 in 2025.

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 Chosen?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 6,140
540 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,160
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#555
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,257 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chosen 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 1002%
School of 5008%

Put another way: gather 4,257 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chosen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chosens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chosen was born before 2023 — so the typical Chosen is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
85.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,248
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 85.9% of all recorded uses (1,930).

Is Chosen 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
+64
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+919
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,601
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
60.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (540)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
53.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#555
2025

Spellings of Chosen

Chosen is not the most common spelling — Chase is, with 76.4% against Chosen's 0.95%.

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 Chosen is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Chosen was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 1,724 boys, against 1 in 7,113 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

258 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 1,724
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 2,128
  3. 3Alabama1 in 2,564
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 2,857
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 3,030
  6. 6Florida1 in 5,263
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 5,263
  8. 8Virginia1 in 5,556

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.

Where Chosen is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Chosen was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 33,990 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 8,333
  2. 2Florida1 in 12,500
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 16,667
  4. 4Alabama1 in 33,333
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 33,333
  6. 6Michigan1 in 33,333
  7. 7Illinois1 in 50,000
  8. 8Indiana1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Chosen around the world

Where Chosen 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
    2021–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

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

Notable people named Chosen

People whose public names include Chosen, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Chosen by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#555
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 919
Best rank ever
#555
2025
Peak year
2025
540 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,248
Count in 2025
540

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,913
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,785
Best rank ever
#1,913
2025
Peak year
2025
101 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
546
Count in 2025
101

Names similar to Chosen

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

ChozenJansenCaysenChasenJaxsenKaisenColsenChozynJaysenKarsenBrysenCarsenChoiceHansenChosynGreysenKolsenChoyceTysenKysenKaysenMasenMaysenHudsen

Names with a curve like Chosen

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

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Sibling names for Chosen

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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