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Chancelor

Chancelor is a boy's name that peaked in 1997, when it was the 1,991st most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 820 Chancelors are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

boys named Chancelor

By the numbers

Total US births
841
Estimated living today
820
Median age today
25
Peak year
1997
Best rank
1,991st
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1977

How old the living Chancelors are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 841 babies given the name since 1977, about 820 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 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.

Where Chancelor is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Chancelor is most concentrated in Texas (5.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1997

The most popular boys’ names the year Chancelor peaked:

All the names of 1997

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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.