girls:
508 births since 1917
#5208 (9th percentile)
boys:
9.6k births since 1880
#1198 (74th percentile)
overall:
10.1k births since 1880
#2652 (66th percentile)
The name Chauncey is the #2,652 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,127 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 65.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 65.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,198 (73.9% percentile) for all time with 9,619 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,208 (8.9% percentile) for all time with 508 births since 1917.
Chauncey has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1917 for girls).
The name Chauncey has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Chauncey reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 24.1% percentile (ranked #518) with 93 births per million. The name was most common in 1890, with 309 births per million (ranked 15.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Chauncey ranks #886 for boys (2.7% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 5.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Chauncey reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #803) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chauncey".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Chauncey. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 79.5% confident that Chauncey is pronounced as CHAWN-see, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is CHOWN-see, at 11.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like CH AO1 N S IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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