Chad (name)

Chad is a masculine given name of Anglo-Saxon origins. It is the modernized form of the Old English given name Ceadda. It is also a short form (hypocorism) of Charles, Chadd, Chadrick and Chadwick.[1]

Chad
GenderMale
Origin
Word/nameOld English given name, "Ceadda"
Other names
Related namesChadd
Charles
Variations of the given name
Blended variations of the given name
Variations of the surname
^indicates a given name article above (surname may have alternate derivations)

Until the 20th century, Chad was very rarely used as a given name. According to the Social Security Administration, Chad first entered the top 1000 names for male children in the United States in 1945, when it was the 997th most popular name. Its popularity suddenly peaked beginning in the mid 1960s, reaching rank 25 in 1972 and 1973. From the mid 1970s, its popularity began a gradual decline, reaching rank 236 in 2000 and rank 667 as of 2013.[2]

Given name

Surname

Fictional characters
gollark: It's definitely possible to set a handler for signals or something.
gollark: How come *instruction sets* come under intellectual property law, anyway?
gollark: Oh, never mind, I don't think the actual CPU is open source, just the instruction set.
gollark: Oh, do you want one process to ~~respond to~~ do something when it gets signals from another?
gollark: If I wanted an open source CPU and had bucketloads of money I would just buy RaptorCS things.

See also

References
  1. "♂ Chad". ThinkBabyNames.com. Retrieved January 11, 2020.
  2. "Popular Baby Names". Social Security Administration.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.