Meaning and history
Chip is a diminutive of Charles or Christopher, and it may also derive from a nickname based on the phrase a chip off the old block, referring to a son who resembles his father.
20062006: 6 births, rank #10,662
2007: 8 births, rank #8,915
2008: 5 births, rank #12,553
2009: 6 births, rank #10,994
2010: no US SSA record for this spelling
20112011: 6 births, rank #10,808
2012: no US SSA record for this spelling
2013: 7 births, rank #9,655
2014: 8 births, rank #8,781
2015: 14 births, rank #5,999
20162016: 16 births, rank #5,555
2017: 35 births, rank #3,249
2018: 31 births, rank #3,524
2019: 47 births, rank #2,694
2020: 47 births, rank #2,658
20212021: 39 births, rank #3,074
2022: 43 births, rank #2,919
2023: 32 births, rank #3,566
2024: 36 births, rank #3,272
20252025: 24 births, rank #4,249
Chip moved from #894 to #990 for boys between 1971 and 1978. Its highest annual birth count came in 1962, with 171 births.