boys:
835 births since 1977
#3752 (18th percentile)
overall:
835 births since 1977
#6904 (11th percentile)
The name Chancelor is the #6,904 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 835 recorded births since 1977. This represents the 10.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,752 (18.1% percentile) for all time with 835 births since 1977.
Chancelor first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1977 (first recorded for boys in 1977). Birth data for Chancelor is available in 42 out of the 46 years between 1977 and 2022. 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, Chancelor reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 5.1% percentile (ranked #752) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 23 births per million (ranked 5.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chancelor".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Chancelor. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.9% confident that Chancelor is pronounced as CHAN-suh-ler, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is CHAN-sler, at 17.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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