Chosen

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 82 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
82
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
#555
up from #619
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

How Chosen has moved

US popularity rank, 2022–2025. Lower is more popular.
#481#727#972202220242025#555

View as table
YearUS rank
2022#898
2023#671
2024#619
2025#555

Chosen by the numbers

Chosen was given to 82 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.

What we can tell you about Chosen

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 Chosen. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Chasenhuntsman; a form of Chasen or Chase51 in the US (2017)
  • Chozen19 in the US (2017)
  • Chosyn10 in the US (2017)
  • Chaseto hunt; one who hunts4,207 in the US (2017)
  • Cohenpriest; kohanim1,115 in the US (2017)
  • Carsenson of the marsh dweller; a variant of Carson227 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Chosen

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