Chucky

Boys' name

Diminutive of Chuck

Chucky has been given to 609 babies in the U.S. since 1948. 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 1961, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Chucky, 2000

1 in 756,000

Chucky over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chucky: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Chuck

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chucky means

Chucky is a diminutive of Chuck.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Chucky is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈt͡ʃʌk.i/ for Chucky.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Chucky → Chuck → Charles. The family’s meaning is “free man”, recorded in English with the source elements karilaz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Chuck.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Chucky is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃʌki/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 609 boys were recorded with the name Chucky between 1948 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 36 in 1961; its best national rank was #1,323 in 1961.

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 Chucky?

Chucky had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2000: 1 in 756,000; 5 of 3,778,496 births
Among boys only: 1 in 393,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2000: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 523,812 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Chucky 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 2000 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 523,812 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chucky. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chuckys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chucky was born before 1965 — so the typical Chucky is around 60 today.

Median birth year: 1965; About 60 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 36.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 21.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 594; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 36.3% of all recorded uses (221).

Is Chucky 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 1961 (36)
Years since peak: 64; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,323; 1961

Spellings of Chucky

Chucky is not the most common spelling — Chuck is, with 70.6% against Chucky's 2.4%.

Chuck70.6%17,871
Lucky14.3%3,624
Huck6.2%1,570
Bucky4.1%1,027
Chuckie2.5%621
Chucky2.4%609

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 Chucky is used

Across 1910–2025, Chucky was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 283,715 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1North Carolina1 in 100,000
2South Carolina1 in —
3Tennessee1 in —
4Virginia1 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. Chucky has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chucky 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: —
Best rank ever: #1,323; 1961
Peak year: 1961; 36 that year
First recorded: 1948
Last recorded: 2000
All-time count: 609
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Chucky

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

Chuckie Church Chung Chuong Chue Micky Vicky Dicky Bucky Lucky Chukwuemeka Chukwudi Chukwuma Chuck Jacky Nicky Chun Becky Macky Chukwuka Chubby Chueyee Churchill Rocky

Sibling names for Chucky

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Jeanetta Juli Mimi Juliann Danita Lorri Donita Jannette

For a brother

Mitch Art Toney Lenny Lindsay Tod Ward Rod

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