girls:
33 births since 1980
#5683 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1883
#3360 (27th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1883
#6460 (17th percentile)
The name Chauncy is the #6,460 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,282 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 16.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,360 (26.7% percentile) for all time with 1,249 births since 1883. For girls, it ranks #5,683 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 33 births since 1980.
Chauncy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for boys and 1980 for girls). Birth data for Chauncy is available in 91 out of the 139 years between 1883 and 2021 (91 years for boys and 5 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 Chauncy has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Chauncy reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 4.1% percentile (ranked #648) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1883, with 62 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Chauncy reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #781) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chauncy".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Chauncy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 77.8% confident that Chauncy is pronounced as CHAWN-see, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is CHAHN-see, at 13.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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