Chalmers
Chalmers reached its high-water mark in 1919 at number 1,122, and has been recorded 1,082 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2006. About 280 Chalmerses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 69.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Chalmers
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,082
- Estimated living today
- 280
- Median age today
- 69
- Peak year
- 1919
- Best rank
- 1,122nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Chalmerses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,082 babies given the name since 1880, about 280 are alive — 26 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1956 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Chalmerss
- Chalmers Johnson (1931–2010)American political scientist
People named Chalmers with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Chalmers is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Chalmers is most concentrated in South Carolina (35.9×), Pennsylvania (5.8×), North Carolina (5.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1919
The most popular boys’ names the year Chalmers peaked:
Related names
Chalmers against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.