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Chucky

The boy's name Chucky has been in the national records since 1948, with 609 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2000. About 500 Chuckys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 57.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Chucky

By the numbers

Total US births
609
Estimated living today
500
Median age today
57
Peak year
1961
Best rank
1,322nd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1948

How old the living Chuckys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 609 babies given the name since 1948, about 500 are alive — 81 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1968 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 Chuckys

People named Chucky with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Chucky is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Chucky is most concentrated in North Carolina (21.5×).

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

Names of 1961

The most popular boys’ names the year Chucky peaked:

All the names of 1961

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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.