Chosen
Feminine · “chosen”
Chosen is given to both — 546 girls and 2,248 boys since 1880. See Chosen as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Chosen is the past participle of an old English verb — ceosan, to choose — and it entered naming through West African Christian practice rather than English.
How old is the name Chosen?
Chosen first appears in US birth records in 2005 — 20 years ago. Chosen is overwhelmingly a brand-new baby name right now — most Chosens are still in diapers. About 500 people named Chosen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Chosen most popular?
Chosen peaked in 2025, reaching #1911 nationally. Today it ranks #1911, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From ceosan to Chosen
The story of Chosen
Nigerian and West African Christian naming produces a set of declarative names — Chosen, Blessing, Favour, Precious, Wisdom, Destiny — which are ordinary there and unusual elsewhere. West African emigration brought them to Britain and America, where Chosen appears in the registers for both sexes and is in current use.
Meaning
chosen, selected
From the Old English ceosan, 'to choose', shared with the German kiesen and the Gothic kiusan. The past participle 'chosen' has been in English since the earliest records. The word is ordinary and the meaning transparent.
How the name formed
- ceosan
- chosen
- Chosen
Related forms: Chosen · Erkoren
Pronouncing Chosen
CHOH-zun
Two syllables, stress on the first. It is a homophone of the ordinary English participle.
Nicknames for Chosen
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
- 2005
- Most girls named
- 2025101 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1911reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +1.0%101 in 2025, from 100
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.
Chosen in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Chosen in English — same name
- Erkoren in German — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Georgia, Texas.
Chosens among us
people named Chosen are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 15,914 born in 2025 was named Chosen
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Chosen
- #1911
- Chosen on the 2025 chart
- #814
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Chosen went to 101 girls in 2025, but Chozen is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 146, which makes it the 814th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,097 places above the chart.
- Chosen101
- Chozen45
About 1 girl in 11,009 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 15,914 for Chosen itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Sascha test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Chosen's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sascha climbed just as high around 1988, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sascha's path sketches the road Chosen is walking now.
Chosen is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Chosen is headed
Chosen looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 55% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. 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.
Chosen beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Chosen in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It records a living West African Christian naming tradition.
- The meaning is transparent and needs no explanation anywhere.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- It is an ordinary English word and carries a large claim.
- It is thoroughly unisex in West African use.
- It reads as unusual outside the communities that use it.
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Feminine · #1911 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Chosens are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Chosen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Chosen?
- Chosen is the most-used spelling in US records — 101 of the 146 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Chozen.
- How popular is the name Chosen in 2025?
- Chosen ranks #1911 among US girl names in 2025, with 101 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Chosen?
- About 1 in every 15,914 US girls born in 2025 was named Chosen — 101 in all.
- Will my child share the name Chosen with classmates?
- Chosen will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Chosen
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
Wesley#1911 · Jazzlyn#1911 · Carlee#1911 · Susie#1911 · Philomena#1911 · Sahana#1911 · Valkyrie#1911 · Lillith#1911
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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