Chandler
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
About Chandler
For a generation, this name will always be linked to 1990s hit TV series Friends. Whether this is a positive or a negative will depend on your fondness for the show, and character Chandler Bing, but this name deserves consideration beyond these connotations: Chandler is a fresh take on the professional surname names.
Chandler for girls#895 US
In the US, nearly 300 baby girls were named Chandler in the US last year, which first appeared on the girls' Top 1000 in the heyday of Friends. While the TV character was masculine, today the name is 43 percent female and climbing, making it one of the trendiest boy names for girls.
Pronounced CHAND-ler.
As of October 2026, Chandler ranked #753 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #151 in 1999.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #421 | 730 | #1,128 | 223 |
| 2015 | #423 | 732 | #1,058 | 249 |
| 2016 | #467 | 654 | #998 | 265 |
| 2017 | #490 | 595 | #1,033 | 250 |
| 2018 | #505 | 567 | #1,010 | 257 |
| 2019 | #581 | 480 | #930 | 284 |
| 2020 | #569 | 490 | #972 | 262 |
| 2021 | #604 | 459 | #892 | 303 |
| 2022 | #640 | 432 | #927 | 291 |
| 2023 | #687 | 390 | #899 | 296 |
| 2024 | #738 | 348 | #895 | 297 |
| 2025 | #753 | 342 | #895 | 296 |
World rankings
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Famous Chandlers
- Chandler BeachBoy
American entrepreneur and encyclopedist
- Chandler BrossardBoy
American novelist
- Chandler BurrBoy
American journalist and author
- Chandler MasseyBoy
American actor
- Chandler HaleBoy
American diplomat
- Chandler OwenBoy
American writer
- Chandler ParsonsBoy
American basketball player
- Chandler James JonesBoy
American NFL football player
- Chandler HarnishBoy
American NFL football player
- Chandler WilliamsBoy
American NFL football player
- Chandler HoffmanBoy
American soccer player
- Chandler RiggsBoy
American actor
- Chandler CanterburyBoy
American child actor
- Chandler PowellBoy
professional wakeboarder, beau of Bindi Irwin
- Chandler WilsonBoy
American YouTuber
- Chandler Hall "Chan" PolingBoy
American musician and composer of The Suburbs
- Matthew Chandler FoxBoy
American actor
- Raymond ChandlerBoy
American novelist and screenwriter
- Kyle ChandlerBoy
American actor
- Tyson ChandlerBoy
American basketball player
- Chandler HallowBoy
American YouTuber
- Chandler James (b. 1995)Girl
daughter of reality TV personality Jesse James; former stepdaughter of actress Sandra Bullock
- Chandler BelfortGirl
daughter of Jordan Belfort of "Wolf of Wall Street" fame
- Chandler Stafford (b. 2017)Girl
daughter of American football quarterback Matthew Stafford
Chandler in pop culture
- Chandler Muriel BingBoy
a character on TV's "Friends"
- Ethan Chandler (Talbot)Boy
character on TV series "Penny Dreadful"
- Chandler WingoGirl
character in book/film "The Prince of Tides"
- Chandler BuffayGirl
Phoebe's surrogate daughter on "Friends."