Chancelor
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 21 babies a year in the US.
Chancelor by the numbers
Chancelor was given to 21 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 45 babies in 1997, making it a 1990s name.
What we can tell you about Chancelor
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Chancelor. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Chancellorkeeper of the seal, high official95 in the US (2017)
- Chandlercandle maker or seller836 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Chancelor
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