Chip
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning a diminutive of Charles meaning free man.
Babies a year
34
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
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outside the ONS list
Chip by the numbers
Chip was given to 34 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 171 babies in 1963, so it is a 1960s name that has since fallen a long way.
Other names that come from Charles
Like Chip, each of these traces back to Charles: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
- Charlottefree woman; feminine form of Charles12,900 in the US (2017)
- Carolinefree woman; feminine form of Charles4,270 in the US (2017)
- Charleyfree man; a form of Charles703 in the US (2017)
- Charleighfree man; a form of Charles667 in the US (2017)
- Charlifree man; a form of Charles526 in the US (2017)
- Carlfree man; a form of Charles411 in the US (2017)
- Charlizefree man; a form of Charles185 in the US (2017)
- Charlenefree person; a form of Charles152 in the US (2017)
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Chip. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Chithe greek letter chi22 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean freedom
Like Chip, each of these has freedom in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Charlesfree man7,142 in the US (2017)
- Maverickindependent, unbranded4,737 in the US (2017)
- Charliefree man1,679 in England and Wales (2025)
- Carlosfree man; a form of Charles3,058 in the US (2017)
- Franciscofree man, frenchman; from Franciscus1,398 in the US (2017)
- Frankiefree man; a form of Frank887 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Chip
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