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Chandler

Boy's name · #753 in the US (2025) · 90s wave

57% boys · 43% girls — Chandler is also given to girls: 296 in 2025, about 43% in recent years. Chandler →

Popularity over time

Chandler's best rank, #151, came in 1999; it has settled back to #753 today. Roughly 37,000 boys have been named Chandler since 1900.

Across the states

In recent years, Chandler ran 3–4× its national rate in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 29 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

See how Chandler ranks in other countries and regions.

#1,628 in Canada (2024).

Famous Chandlers

• Chandler Riggs — American actor
• Chandler Canterbury — American actor
• Chandler Parsons — American basketball player
• Chandler Egan — Amateur golfer, golf course architect (1884–1936)
• Chandler Stephenson — Canadian ice hockey forward

As a surname

It is also an American family name — about 79,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.

• Raymond Chandler — American novelist and screenwriter (1888–1959)
• Kyle Chandler — American actor (born 1965)
• Tyson Chandler — American basketball player

In stories & tradition

• Chandler Bing — Friends (TV series)
• Chandler McCann — The Loud House (TV series)

What Chandlers become

Among 140 notable people named Chandler:

Sports figures appear 2.43× more often than among typical names — e.g. Chandler Parsons, American basketball player.

Similar names: Alec · Chance · Darian · Skyler · Tanner · Taylor

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