Name profile

Chauncey

From a Norman surname of unknown meaning.

Usage languagesEnglish
US rank (2025)#4,396

Meaning and history

Chauncey is from a Norman surname of unknown meaning and was later used as a given name in America in honor of Harvard president Charles Chauncey (1592–1672).

Popularity over timeUS births · boys
20062006: 110 births, rank #1,417
2007: 111 births, rank #1,445
2008: 111 births, rank #1,478
2009: 95 births, rank #1,654
2010: 83 births, rank #1,778
20112011: 89 births, rank #1,675
2012: 66 births, rank #2,066
2013: 66 births, rank #2,044
2014: 75 births, rank #1,920
2015: 55 births, rank #2,355
20162016: 36 births, rank #3,161
2017: 44 births, rank #2,755
2018: 53 births, rank #2,445
2019: 44 births, rank #2,808
2020: 37 births, rank #3,074
20212021: 37 births, rank #3,180
2022: 32 births, rank #3,533
2023: 30 births, rank #3,712
2024: 43 births, rank #2,915
20252025: 23 births, rank #4,396

Chauncey moved from #923 to #950 for boys between 1997 and 1998. Its highest annual birth count came in 1981, with 173 births.