Peak popularity
1918
Usually for
Boys
Trend
Holding steady
Holding steady.
Popularity of Chess since 1915
Babies named Chess per year in U.S. Social Security records. Raw births topped out in 1953, but relative to how few babies were recorded back then, Chess's real moment was 1918.
Data table (by decade)
| Decade | Boys |
|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 |
| 1920s | 0 |
| 1930s | 0 |
| 1940s | 0 |
| 1950s | 8 |
| 1960s | 0 |
| 1970s | 0 |
| 1980s | 0 |
| 1990s | 5 |
| 2000s | 0 |
| 2010s | 0 |
| 2020s | 5 |
