Chisholm
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning narrow ravine with gorse shrub.
Babies a year
6
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list
Chisholm by the numbers
Chisholm was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 6 babies in 1985, making it a 1980s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Chisholm. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a plant or herb
Like Chisholm, each of these has a plant or herb in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Brandonbeacon hill or gorse covered hill3,482 in the US (2017)
- Hadleyheather field2,726 in the US (2017)
- Reedred-haired or one who lives by reeds872 in the US (2017)
- Briarthorny shrub, bramble640 in the US (2017)
- Saigewise one; a respelling of Sage508 in the US (2017)
- Rodneyfamous island, clearing with reeds301 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Chisholm
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