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Chad
Pronounced /t͡ʃæd/
Rank in 2024
#1,812
Born in 2024
90
Peak year
1972 · #25
Origin
Old English
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 90 boys were named Chad, about 1 in every 19,059.
- It peaked in 1972 with 13,391 babies, ranked #25.
- It first shows up in the records in 1914.
- 240,640 boys have been named Chad since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Chad per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- 5.0Gen X1965–80
- 2.7Millennials1981–96
- 0.5Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 134 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 381 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 4,691 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen X: 136,977 babies, 5.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 80,679 babies, 2.65 per 1,000. Gen Z: 15,197 babies, 0.48 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,581 babies, 0.12 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Chadde, from Old English Ċeadda, of obscure meaning; name of a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon saint, revived in the 20th century. The sense of “alpha male” originates from an apparent stereotype that men with such a name tend to bear that temperament, first attested in c. late 1990s in Chicago, Illinois (specifically "successful white man, yuppie"), but in common usage only as of the late 2010s via 4chan and California slang. ==== Proper noun ==== Chad A male given name from Old English; also a modern nickname for Charles, Chadwick and similar-sounding names.
- A male given name from Old English; also a modern nickname for Charles, Chadwick and similar-sounding names.
- Origin
- Old English
- Say it
- /t͡ʃæd/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Chad, CC BY-SA 4.0.