boys:
2.5k births since 1957
#2550 (44th percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1957
#5375 (31st percentile)
The name Chadd is the #5,375 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,456 recorded births since 1957. This represents the 30.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 30.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,550 (44.4% percentile) for all time with 2,456 births since 1957.
Chadd first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1957 (first recorded for boys in 1957). Birth data for Chadd is available in 54 out of the 61 years between 1957 and 2017. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Chadd reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 13.8% percentile (ranked #563) with 58 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 58 births per million (ranked 13.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chadd".
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