Chaos
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KAY-oss
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Chaos is a boys' name of Greek origin, meaning “abyss, void”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Chaos mean?
Greek: Greek khaos, adopted into English
“abyss, void”
Chaos is the primeval void from which the world emerged in Greek creation myth.
Is Chaos a girl's or a boy's name?
Chaos is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Chaos in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Chaos, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,292nd. Its busiest year was 2021, with 22 boys. It first appears in the records in 2006.
Half of all the boys named Chaos in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Chaos in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,855 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,490 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,292 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,750 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,150 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,542 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,562 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,124 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,532 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,044 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,593 |
| 2010 | 8 | #8,797 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,305 |
| 2008 | 7 | #9,864 |
| 2007 | 7 | #9,782 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,655 |
Names like Chaos
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ares, Luca, Memphis, Chozen, Cairo, Atlas, Callan, Kyrie, Silas, Onyx, Atreus, Thiago
Names related to Chaos
More Greek names
Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe, Iris
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Chaos: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/chaos, updated 20 October 2026.