Chip
The boy's name Chip has been in the national records since 1942, with 3,493 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 4,249th. About 2,900 Chips are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 58.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Chip
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,493
- Estimated living today
- 2,900
- Median age today
- 58
- Peak year
- 1962
- Best rank
- 593rd
- Rank in 2025
- 4,249th
- First recorded
- 1942
How old the living Chips are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,493 babies given the name since 1942, about 2,900 are alive — 82 in every hundred. Roughly 390 of them are children and 710 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1967 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 Chips
- Chip Taylor (1940–2026)American songwriter
- Chip Roy (born 1972)American politician
- Chip Reese (1951–2007)American poker player
- Chip Ganassi (born 1958)American racing team owner
People named Chip with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Chip is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Chip is most concentrated in Georgia (3.6×), Ohio (2.7×), North Carolina (2.3×), Florida (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1962
The most popular boys’ names the year Chip peaked:
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Chip 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.