Chosen
- Gender
- Mostly boys
- Say it
- CHOH-zen
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #555 for boys
Chosen is a name of English origin, meaning “chosen, selected”. In 2025 it ranked 555th for boys in the US (540 babies).
What does Chosen mean?
English: English word name
“chosen, selected”
An English word name expressing the idea of being chosen, often in a religious sense.
Is Chosen a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Chosen has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 101 girls and 540 boys in the US.
How popular is Chosen in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #555among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 540about 1 in 3,200 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 412% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 540 boys in the US were named Chosen, making it the 555th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,473rd. It first appears in the records in 2003. 101 girls were also named Chosen in 2025 (1,911th for girls).
It has been given to more boys each year for the last 10 years. 2025 had the most boys named Chosen of any year since it first appeared, in 2003.
Half of all the boys named Chosen in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,413 boys in the US were given Chosen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #268, up from #555 for this spelling alone.
In 2025, 16% of the babies named Chosen in the US were girls.
Chosen in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 540 | #555 |
| 2024 | 462 | #619 |
| 2023 | 407 | #669 |
| 2022 | 262 | #895 |
| 2021 | 143 | #1,307 |
| 2020 | 116 | #1,473 |
| 2019 | 83 | #1,823 |
| 2018 | 76 | #1,936 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,185 |
| 2016 | 31 | #3,523 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,035 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,557 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,650 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,620 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 6 | #10,989 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,182 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,655 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,574 |
Names like Chosen
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Caspian Kaizen Colson Ledger Sevyn Cassian Wylder Brixton Rhodes Wilder Shepherd Kashton
Other spellings of Chosen
Names related to Chosen
More English names
Lily Evelyn Hudson Ivy Harper Grace Violet Willow Daisy Poppy Riley Oakley Mason Cooper Ruby Hallie
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, “Chosen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/chosen, updated 20 October 2026.