Chudney
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Chudney has been given to 81 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 1982, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.
Babies named Chudney, 1987
1 in 515,000
Chudney 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Chudney over time
In 1987, Chudney went to 100% girls and 0% 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 Chudney?
Chudney had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1987
- 1 in 515,000
- 7 of 3,605,072 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 248,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1987
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 356,979 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Chudney sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1987 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 356,979 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chudney. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Chudneys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Chudney was born before 1981 — so the typical Chudney is around 44 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 52.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 76
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 52.6% of all recorded uses (40).
Is Chudney 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
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- 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 1982 (13)
- Years since peak
- 43
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 51.0% average annual change
Spellings of Chudney
Chudney is not the most common spelling — Cydney is, with 50.8% against Chudney's 0.75%.
Chudney by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Chudney
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Chudney
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.