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Chubby vs Chuckie

American parents have registered 621 Chuckies since 1880, against 14 Chubbys. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Chubby against Chuckie, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Chubby Chuckie

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

Chuckie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1949 to 2010. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1962, when Chubby had 9 and Chuckie had 23.

Side by side

  Chubby Chuckie
Total US births 14621
Most in one year 945
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 11510
Median age today 6357
Peak year 19621961
Best rank 2,848th boys1,179th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19621949
Girls / boys 0 / 140 / 621

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 Chubbys alive today are over 63; half the Chuckies are over 57. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Chubby and Chuckie.