How Many People Are Named Chalmers?
people named Chalmers are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 1,233,880 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,082 babies named Chalmers in Social Security records from 1880 to 2006, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
38 births
Trend
Last year given
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Chalmers in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Chalmers alive today is about 64 years old, and 69% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 53 and 78 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Chalmers first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1919, to 38 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2006.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2006
🏆 Rank History
Chalmers has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #863, in 1891.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #863 (1891) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,402 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Chalmers alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Chalmers were born in South Carolina than in any other state: about 11 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Chalmers was given about 27.7 times as often in South Carolina.
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