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Chevy

About 4,677 American babies have been named Chevy since 1976, most of them around 2014. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 1,547th. About 4,600 Chevys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Chevy boys named Chevy

Girls and boys called Chevy

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 883 girls and 3,794 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 23 to 111.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 39 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
4,677
Estimated living today
4,600
Median age today
12
Peak year
2014
Best rank
906th
Rank in 2025
1,547th
First recorded
1976
Girls / boys
883 / 3,794

How old the living Chevys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,677 babies given the name since 1976, about 4,600 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 3,300 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Chevys

People named Chevy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Chevy is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Chevy is most concentrated in Oklahoma (5.9×), Arkansas (3.9×), Tennessee (3.8×), Kentucky (3.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2014

The most popular boys’ names the year Chevy peaked:

All the names of 2014

Chevy elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Chevy 6 5,666th
England and Wales boys Chevy 3 4,810th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Chevy against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.