Chuck
The boy's name Chuck has been in the national records since 1914, with 17,871 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 8,243rd. About 13,000 Chucks are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 63.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Chuck
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 17,871
- Estimated living today
- 13,000
- Median age today
- 63
- Peak year
- 1961
- Best rank
- 217th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,243rd
- First recorded
- 1914
How old the living Chucks are
born that year still alive today
Of the 17,871 babies given the name since 1914, about 13,000 are alive — 72 in every hundred. Roughly 140 of them are children and 5,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1962 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 Chucks
- Chuck Berry (1926–2017)American musician
- Chuck Palahniuk (born 1962)American novelist, essayist
- Chuck Schumer (born 1950)American politician
- Chuck McCann (1934–2018)American voice actor and comedian
- Chuck Yeager (1923–2020)American World War II flying ace and test pilot; first pilot to fly faster than sound
- Chuck Grassley (born 1933)United States Senator from Iowa since 1981
- Chuck Hagel (born 1946)American soldier and politician
- Chuck Schuldiner (1967–2001)American musician
People named Chuck with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Chuck is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Chuck is most concentrated in Washington (2.0×), Oklahoma (1.7×), Michigan (1.6×), Oregon (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1961
The most popular boys’ names the year Chuck peaked:
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Chuck 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.