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Chrome

Gender
Boy
Say it
KROHM
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#5,859 for boys
Style
New arrival

Chrome is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “shiny chromium plating”. In 2025 it ranked 5,859th for boys in the US (15 babies).

What does Chrome mean?

English: word name for chromium plating, from Greek khroma 'colour'

“shiny chromium plating”

Chromium was named from Greek khroma, colour, because its compounds are so vividly coloured.

Is Chrome a girl's or a boy's name?

Chrome is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls and 15 boys in the US.

How popular is Chrome in the US?

Rank in 2025
5,859th among boys
Babies in 2025
15 about 1 in 110,000 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, 15 boys in the US were named Chrome, making it the 5,859th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2024, with 17 boys. It first appears in the records in 2023. 5 girls were also named Chrome in 2025 (14,937th for girls).

In 2025, 72 boys in the US were given Chrome or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,784, up from #5,859 for this spelling alone.

2023Busiest: 17 in 20242025
Chrome in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202515#5,859
202417#5,439
202311#7,284

Names like Chrome

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Truce, Charlie, Coast, Suede, Prince, George, Ambrose, Chozen, Cove, Choyce, Clyde, Judge

Other spellings of Chrome

Khrome

More English names

Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie

Every English name

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, “Chrome: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/chrome, updated 20 October 2026.