Chen

maleStatistical record

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

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

Chen: Recorded since 2005, it reached #718 in 2012, and it was last ranked in 2019.

2registrars recorded it
22times a registrar ranked it
15years from first to last
#718highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2005–2015

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2005	#3970
2007	#4294
2009	#4564
2011	#4764
2012	#3285
2013	#4050
2014	#5691
2015	#4736

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 13 of the 15 years from 2005 to 2019.

In 2012: #718 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #2270 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2005–2019 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2005
First recorded at #3970 among girls in England and Wales in 2005 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2019
Most recently recorded at #4702 among boys in England and Wales, in 2019.
England and Wales · Boys

Chen appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 13 years beginning in 2005, and has registered 79 births with the name.

Chen 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.

Chen'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	#3208 (2005)	#1885 (2007)	#4702 (2019)	13 of 15	79 (2005–2019)	10 (2007)
England and Wales · Girls	#3970 (2005)	#3285 (2012)	#4736 (2015)	8 of 11	35 (2005–2015)	7 (2012)

Chen appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2005 to 2019. Highest recorded position: #718 in Republic of Ireland in 2012.

Chen'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
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3285	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2270	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4764	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2039	10	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2400	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2544	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2097	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1885	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 2005 and 2019, ranked in 13 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #718, first reached in 2012.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 10 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2012, and 7 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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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Cherie · #67, 38y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, 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.

Alekss · #718, 10y
Deivids · #718, 9y
Iacov · #718, 14y
Larosa · #718, 12y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Aarna · #718, 19y
Ahana · #718, 19y
Anvi · #718, 20y
Arav · #718, 22y

Chen was ranked #718 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2012. 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.

Chen 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 Chen without appearing here.

Chen moved ahead of

Tracey Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4764 and #2893 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3285 and #4838.
Finley Compare
In 2014 they stood at #5691 and #2862 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4736 and #5730.
Tyler Compare
In 2014 they stood at #5691 and #3160 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4736 and #5730.
Maddison Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3208 and #3208 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #2870 and #3385.

Moved ahead of Chen

Matheo Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3315 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #4632 and #2964.
Gustav Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2270 and #2458 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #3315 and #1920.
Meabh Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3285 and #5876 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #4050 and #2887.
Aksel Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2270 and #3416 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #3315 and #2403.

Moved the opposite way to Chen

Albie Compare
Between 2005 and 2019 in England and Wales · Boys, Chen went from #3208 to #4702 while Albie went from #426 to #45.
Alfred Compare
Between 2005 and 2019 in England and Wales · Boys, Chen went from #3208 to #4702 while Alfred went from #166 to #97.
Archie Compare
Between 2005 and 2019 in England and Wales · Boys, Chen went from #3208 to #4702 while Archie went from #38 to #19.
Arlo Compare
Between 2005 and 2019 in England and Wales · Boys, Chen went from #3208 to #4702 while Arlo went from #766 to #34.

Moved the same way as Chen

Aaron Compare
Between 2005 and 2019 in England and Wales · Boys, Chen went from #3208 to #4702 and Aaron from #45 to #113.
Adam Compare
Between 2005 and 2019 in England and Wales · Boys, Chen went from #3208 to #4702 and Adam from #26 to #39.
Alex Compare
Between 2005 and 2019 in England and Wales · Boys, Chen went from #3208 to #4702 and Alex from #53 to #106.
Andrew Compare
Between 2005 and 2019 in England and Wales · Boys, Chen went from #3208 to #4702 and Andrew from #88 to #227.

What's not yet available

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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.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2005 to 2019. Highest recorded position: #718 in Republic of Ireland in 2012. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

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Chen across 2 official records

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