Chip

Boys' name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US: ~2,900 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: #4,249 among boys
Births in 2025: 24 3,493 since 1880
Typical age: 58 years, median

Chip popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1942–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 1962: 171 births recorded as Chip. The name does not appear in the data until 1942. Chip has ranked inside the top 1,000 in 20 years.

In 2025 it ranked #4,249 with 24 births. Compared with 2015, births are up 71%. Year on year the rank dropped by 977.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Chip?

About 2,900 people named Chip are alive in the United States today. That is out of 3,493 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Chip?

The typical living Chip is 58 years old. Most living bearers were born in the 1960s. By the site’s era rules that makes Chip a late 20th-century name.

Your Chip

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Notable people named Chip

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
	Known for	Years	Editions
Chip Roy	American politician	1972	16
Chip Ganassi	American racing team owner	1958	12
Chip Pickering	American politician	1963	11
Chip Foose	American automobile pioneer	1963	10
Chip Robinson	American racecar driver	1954	10
Chip Zien	American actor	1947	10
Chip Kidd	American graphic designer	1964	9
Chip Tsao	Hong Kong columnist, broadcaster, and writer	1958	9

Photo credits (7)

Chip Roy — United States Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Chip Ganassi — Wolkenjaeger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Chip Pickering — United States Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Chip Foose — Greggreeson at English Wikipedia; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:41, 30 March 2010 (UTC), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Chip Robinson — Stuart Seeger, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Chip Kidd — Nightscream, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Chip Tsao — ハーバード, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Chip

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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Every number on this page is available as JSON: /api/name/chip.json. Free to use with attribution (CC BY 4.0).