Chadwick
Masculine · “Chad's dairy farm”
Chadwick is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 13,276 boys against 22 girls since 1880.
Chadwick is Chad's dairy farm. The -wick ending is one of the most common in English place names and it usually means exactly that: a specialized farm, most often for cheese and butter.
How old is the name Chadwick?
Chadwick first appears in US birth records in 1914 — 111 years ago. The typical Chadwick alive today was born around 1979, making them about 46 years old. About 12,000 people named Chadwick are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Chadwick most popular?
Chadwick peaked in 1975, reaching #272 nationally. Today it ranks #4139, 3,867 places below that high. See the whole 1975 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Ceadda + wic to Chadwick
The story of Chadwick
Chad was a seventh-century bishop of Mercia and one of the more important figures in the English conversion; his name is British, and its bearer was venerated widely enough for places to be named after men who carried it. Chadwick is a place in Lancashire and Worcestershire, then a surname, then an American given name — part of the -wick and -ton wave of the nineteenth century. It peaked around 1985.
Meaning
Chad's dairy farm
From the Old English personal name Ceadda plus wic, 'dwelling' or 'specialized farm' — most often a dairy. Wic came into Old English from the Latin vicus, and it is the ending of Warwick, Norwich and hundreds more. Ceadda's own name is British rather than English and its meaning is not recovered.
How the name formed
- Ceadda + wic
- Chadwick
Related forms: Chadwyck · Chad
Pronouncing Chadwick
CHAD-wik
Two syllables, stress on the first. Both elements are ordinary and neither is said unexpectedly.
Nicknames for Chadwick
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1914
- Most boys named
- 1975707 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #272reached in 1975
- Change vs 2023
- −26.5%25 in 2025, from 34
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Chadwick in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Chadwyck in English — spelling variant
- Chad in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Georgia, Florida, Texas.
Chadwicks among us
people named Chadwick are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 68,323 born in 2025 was named Chadwick
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Taft test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Chadwick's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Taft climbed just as high around 1908, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Taft's path sketches the road Chadwick is walking now.
Chadwick sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Chadwick is headed
Chadwick should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Chadwick beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Chadwick in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented English place name with a transparent second element.
- Chad is a short form with a substantial independent record.
- Two firm syllables that pair well with almost any surname.
- It reads as a surname to many people, which is what it was for centuries.
- It is closely dated to the 1980s in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Chadwicks are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 12,000 people named Chadwick are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Chadwick in 2025?
- Chadwick ranks #4139 among US boy names in 2025, with 25 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Chadwick?
- About 1 in every 68,323 US boys born in 2025 was named Chadwick — 25 in all.
- Will my child share the name Chadwick with classmates?
- Chadwick will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Chadwick
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