Chad vs Charolette
American parents have registered 241,767 Chads since 1880, against 3,536 Charolettes. Chad is still ahead, with 96 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Chad Charolette
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 112 years in which either name was published, Chad for 83 years and Charolette for 29 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.
- 1914–1915 Chad ahead
- 1916 Charolette ahead
- 1917 Chad ahead
- 1918–1919 Charolette ahead
- 1920–1922 Chad ahead
- 1923 Charolette ahead
- 1924–1925 Chad ahead
- 1926–1950 Charolette ahead
- 1951–2025 Chad ahead
Side by side
| Chad | Charolette | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 241,767 | 3,536 |
| Most in one year | 13,441 | 90 |
| Babies in 2025 | 96 | 42 |
| Estimated living today | 222,000 | 2,600 |
| Median age today | 46 | 60 |
| Peak year | 1972 | 1943 |
| Best rank | 25th boys | 816th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,699th | 3,577th |
| First recorded | 1914 | 1914 |
| Girls / boys | 1,039 / 240,728 | 3,536 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Charolettes alive today are over 60; half the Chads are over 46. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Chad North Dakota (2.7×), South Dakota (2.7×), Iowa (2.5×)
- Charolette West Virginia (9.8×), Kentucky (8.8×), Oklahoma (5.3×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Chad and Charolette.