Chipper
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Chipper by the numbers
Chipper was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 18 babies in 1964, making it a 1960s name.
What we can tell you about Chipper
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 Chipper. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Copper28 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Chipper
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