girls:
17 births since 1999
#5699 (0th percentile)
boys:
130 births since 1990
#4456 (3rd percentile)
overall:
147 births since 1990
#7592 (2nd percentile)
The name Chamberlain is the #7,592 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 147 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 1.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,456 (2.8% percentile) for all time with 130 births since 1990. For girls, it ranks #5,699 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 17 births since 1999.
Chamberlain first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (1990 for boys and 1999 for girls). Birth data for Chamberlain is available in 20 out of the 34 years between 1990 and 2023 (19 years for boys and 3 years for girls). 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.
The name Chamberlain has been given predominantly to boys, with 88.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Chamberlain were boys.
For boys, Chamberlain reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #877) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Chamberlain is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #908 (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million.
For girls, Chamberlain reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #885) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chamberlain".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Chamberlain. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.1% confident that Chamberlain is pronounced as CHAYM-ber-lihn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is CHAYM-ber-luhn, at 26.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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