girls:
57 births since 1982
#5659 (1st percentile)
boys:
185 births since 1977
#4401 (4th percentile)
overall:
242 births since 1977
#7497 (3rd percentile)
The name Chen is the #7,497 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 242 recorded births since 1977. This represents the 3.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,401 (4.0% percentile) for all time with 185 births since 1977. For girls, it ranks #5,659 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 57 births since 1982.
Chen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1977 (1977 for boys and 1982 for girls). Birth data for Chen is available in 31 out of the 46 years between 1977 and 2022 (28 years for boys and 10 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 Chen has been given predominantly to boys, with 76.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Chen were boys.
For boys, Chen reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Chen reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #984) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chen".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Chen is pronounced as chehn, which has 1 syllables.
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