Chandler

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Chandler: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Chandler: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #342, and it stood at #5,119 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
26times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#342highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–1998

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3174
1998	#2701

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 24 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #489 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #342 among boys in England and Wales, in 1998 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5119 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Chandler appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 24 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 443 births with the name.

Chandler across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Chandler's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#489 (1996)	#342 (1998)	#5119 (2024)	24 of 29	443 (1996–2024)	69 (1998)
England and Wales · Girls	#3174 (1997)	#2701 (1998)	#2701 (1998)	2 of 2	9 (1997–1998)	5 (1998)

Chandler by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Chandler in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	220	4 of 10	55
2000sbusiest	181	10 of 10	18
2010s	28	6 of 10	5
2020s	14	4 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 18 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Chandler appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #342 in England and Wales in 1998.

Chandler's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3523	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2512	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2721	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3227	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2023	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1744	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1851	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1498	11	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#912	21	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#722	26	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#544	35	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#415	52	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#387	58	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#342	69	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#399	56	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#489	37	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #342, first reached in 1998.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 69 births, registered in England and Wales in 1998.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Chanelle · #277, 27y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Shivani · #342, 29y
Yuvraj · #341, 26y
Ismaeel · #344, 29y
Maylen · #339, 20y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Ayrton · #342, 30y
Ayub · #342, 30y
Corbyn · #342, 24y
Eduard · #342, 25y

Chandler was ranked #342 in England and Wales · Boys in 1998. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Chandler and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Chandler without appearing here.

Moved ahead of Chandler

Braxton Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1851 and #2418 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #4647 and #1398.
Roger Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2512 and #2734 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #4749 and #1610.
Gunnar Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2512 and #3040 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #4749 and #1786.
Conan Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2023 and #3095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #4432 and #1511.

Moved the opposite way to Chandler

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Chandler went from #489 to #5119 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Chandler went from #489 to #5119 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Chandler went from #489 to #5119 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Chandler went from #489 to #5119 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Chandler

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Chandler went from #489 to #5119 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Chandler went from #489 to #5119 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Chandler went from #489 to #5119 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Chandler went from #489 to #5119 and Alex from #43 to #171.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #342 in England and Wales in 1998. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Chandler

Chandler at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Chandler across 2 official records

Chandler by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Chandler appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Chandler

Chandler and the names beside it

Moved ahead of Chandler

Moved the opposite way to Chandler

Moved the same way as Chandler

Chandler at a glance

Chandler across 2 official records

Chandler by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Chandler appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Chandler

Chandler and the names beside it

Moved ahead of Chandler

Moved the opposite way to Chandler

Moved the same way as Chandler