Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Chicago**

#12,435 most common boys' name of all time · #31,925 across all names · 69% male / 31% female · used 1995–2025 · genuinely unisex

Rank among boys
#12,435
Rank overall
#31,925 of 105,966
First appeared
1995
Years on the list
14 of 146
All-time
175
Since 2016
134
Peak year
2024 #6,668
Best rank
#6,376 2023
Girls Boys peak 25/yr
20002020

Chicago first appears in 1995. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
2025 12 11 23 #7,435
2024 12 13 25 #6,668
2023 8 14 22 #6,376
2022 10 11 21 #7,534
2021 6 12 18 #6,919
2020 9 9 #8,411
2019 5 5 #12,972
2018 6 5 11 #12,985
2015 7 7 #10,117
2008 6 6 #11,806
2005 5 5 #12,493
1998 7 7 #8,313
1996 7 7 #7,883
1995 9 9 #6,394