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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Chad

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#1,701

up +109 places

2025 births

96

up +6 births

All-time births

240,728

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1972
13,392 births
Best rank
#25
in 1972
First recorded
1914
#1,995 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1980
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
111 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 197213,392#25Peak
  2. 197312,886#25
  3. 197512,838#27
  4. 197412,788#26
  5. 197112,137#29

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #25 in 1972 · peak births 13,392 in 1972

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

240,728 boys · 1,039 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Chad has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.