Chauncey
About 10,193 American babies have been named Chauncey since 1880, most of them around 1981. In 2025 it ranked 4,396th. About 7,000 Chaunceys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 38.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Chauncey boys named Chauncey
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 10,193
- Estimated living today
- 7,000
- Median age today
- 38
- Peak year
- 1981
- Best rank
- 647th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,396th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 508 / 9,685
How old the living Chaunceys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 10,193 babies given the name since 1880, about 7,000 are alive — 69 in every hundred. Roughly 1,000 of them are children and 720 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1987 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 the name comes from
Origin a surname
From the Norman name based on several locations in France called Chancé. See Old French chance.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Chaunceys
- Chauncey Billups (born 1976)American basketball player and coach
- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835–1905)American writer
- Chauncey Sparks (1884–1968)American politician
- Chauncey Leopardi (born 1981)American actor
- Chauncey Depew (1834–1928)American politician
People named Chauncey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Chauncey is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Chauncey is most concentrated in Florida (2.9×), Georgia (2.7×), Mississippi (2.2×), New York (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1981
The most popular boys’ names the year Chauncey peaked:
Chauncey elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Chauncey | 3 | 2,943rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Chauncey 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.