Chad

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Chad is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Modern spelling of the Old English name ~ Ceadda, the name of a 7th-century saint who was Archbishop of York.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.6K◐
  • CACanada1 in 1.7K
  • SGSingapore1 in 2.2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈210K ●

across 8 countries

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
525 ●

2.3M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.6K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

ChadLatin · English●2.3M records
ฉัตรThai · Thai●2.7K records
צ'אדHebrew · Hebrew●51 records
ЧэдCyrillic · Russian●9 records
차드Hangul · Korean●6 records

9 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled ชาติ in TH Thailand and Chat in VN Vietnam.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Modern spelling of the Old English name ~ Ceadda, the name of a 7th-century saint who was Archbishop of York. His name is of uncertain derivation.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Chad is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#235208,9272M rec.1 in 1.6K209KChad525
GB United Kingdom#40366,89065K rec.—4Chad151
CA Canada#27347,61142K rec.—2Chad205
AU Australia#46137,14632K rec.—77Chad195
TH Thailand—16,96610K rec.—#93,367ชาติ79
IT Italy#6299,5729.6K rec.—3Chad41
DE Germany—6,8126.8K rec.—1Chad87
PH Philippines—6,2325.4K rec.——Chad84
RU Russia—5,1745.2K rec.——Chad22
SG Singapore#1464,8804.9K rec.——Chad32
VN Vietnam#5264,1641.5K rec.——Chat42
DZ Algeria#1384,0524.1K rec.—listedChad13

Roughly 209K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 1.6K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English2.3M87%
  • Spanish82K3%
  • 40K2%
  • French21K1%
  • German19K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English2,318,52987%
Spanish82,0093%
40,1072%
French20,5521%
German19,2741%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Chad is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name130K records spelled Chad23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Argentina, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Chade, Tchad, Ciad, Chád, Çhäd

  • Hindi given name20K records spelled Chad4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Chäd

  • Greek given name5.5K records spelled Chad3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Tsant, Τσαντ

73 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Chad is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A male given name from Old English; also a modern nickname for Charles, Chadwick and similar-sounding names.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, country, Africa; pers. name

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Celtic: 'battle' or 'warlike'

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • huge expanse of water.

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • Battaglia

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05K10K15K19201940196019802000202013K · 1972

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Chad in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1914–2025
Yearrecords
191411
19155
191713
191811
191910
192010
19218
192215
192310
192414
192510
19267
192710
19288
192911
19308
193113
193217
193310
193415
193522
193618
193715
193818
193921
194023
194126
194241
194339
194436
194540
194657
194778
194855
194956
195066
195195
1952118
1953152
1954202
1955235
1956221
1957252
1958249
1959247
1960255
1961364
1962464
1963648
1964875
19651,172
19662,201
19672,946
19682,917
19694,060
19706,628
197112,137
197213,392
197312,886
197412,788
197512,838
197611,766
197710,831
197810,107
197910,161
198010,142
19818,412
19827,909
19837,390
19847,062
19856,466
19866,026
19875,622
19885,299
19894,723
19904,351
19913,585
19923,356
19933,143
19942,730
19952,434
19962,168
19971,952
19981,808
19991,585
20001,453
20011,079
2002928
2003861
2004828
2005767
2006799
2007659
2008613
2009529
2010463
2011439
2012434
2013358
2014346
2015314
2016291
2017220
2018241
2019175
2020150
2021158
2022132
2023108
202490
202596

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 111 years between 1914–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

196019802000Chad Smith, b. 1961Chad Stahelski, b. 1968Chad Lowe, b. 1968Chad Coleman, b. 1974Chad Kroeger, b. 1974Chad Allen, b. 1974Chad Lindberg, b. 1976Chad Hurley, b. 1977Chad Michael Murray, b. 1981Chad le Clos, b. 1992

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 65 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Chad
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020209K#265
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2023495#2,361
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000476#42,830
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010350#58,042
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020319#66,829
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—281#27,928
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020217#265
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202596—
AU AustraliaNSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present)198377#94
GD GrenadaGrenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025202573#77
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 2025202556#538
VC St. Vincent & GrenadinesElectoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025)202556#91

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 622 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Chad?
We estimate roughly 210 thousand people bear Chad (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Chad have the most bearers?
We estimate about 209 thousand people bear Chad in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled chad.
Where is Chad most common?
Chad is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.6 thousand people carrying it.
How common is Chad compared with other names?
In the United States, Chad is the 235th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Chad a male or female name?
Chad is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Chad mean?
Recorded meaning: Modern spelling of the Old English name ~ Ceadda, the name of a 7th-century saint who was Archbishop of York.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chad” — the 235th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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