Chad (man)
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Chad is a masculine given name of English
/Welsh
origins. It is a modern variant of the Old English given name "Ceadda", influenced by the Welsh
word "cad" meaning "battle". Until the 20th century, Chad was an uncommon 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 peaked in 1972 and 1973, at number 25. it was the 547th most popular name for boys in the United States.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
origins. It is a modern variant of the Old English given name "Ceadda", influenced by the Welsh
Welsh language
Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...
word "cad" meaning "battle". Until the 20th century, Chad was an uncommon name. According to the Social Security Administration
Social Security Administration
The United States Social Security Administration is an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits...
, Chad first entered the top 1000 names for male children in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
in 1945, when it was the 997th most popular name. Its popularity peaked in 1972 and 1973, at number 25. it was the 547th most popular name for boys in the United States.
People with the given name
- Chad Allan (musician)Chad Allan (musician)Chad Allan is a Canadian musician and founding member of The Guess Who. He was the group's original lead singer and front man, as well as rhythm guitarist, songwriter and occasionally drummer and pianist....
(born 1943), Canadian musician and founding member of The Guess Who - Chad Allen (actor)Chad Allen (actor)Chad Allen is an American actor. Beginning a prolific career as a child actor at the age of seven, Allen is a three-time Young Artist Award winner and GLAAD Media Award honoree, best known for rising to prominence as a teen idol during the late 1980s as David Witherspoon on the NBC family drama,...
(born 1974), American actor - Chad Allen (baseball) (born 1975), American baseball player
- Chad AshtonChad AshtonChad Ashton is a retired U.S. soccer midfielder who spent one season in Major League Soccer, four in the American Professional Soccer League, six in the National Professional Soccer League and one in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He coached for ten years at the collegiate level and is currently...
(born 1967), retired American soccer player - Chad ButlerChad ButlerChad Matthew Butler is the drummer for the band Switchfoot which he co-founded along with Jon and Tim Foreman in 1996...
(born 1974), American drummer for Switchfoot - Chad ChanningChad ChanningChad Channing is an American musician who is best known for being the drummer of the band Nirvana from 1988 until 1990, during which time they recorded and released their debut album Bleach...
(born 1967), former drummer for Nirvana and member of Fire Ants - Chad DurbinChad DurbinChad Griffin Durbin is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher. He has also played with the Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Royals and Cleveland Indians of the American League and the Arizona Diamondbacks and Philadelphia Phillies of the National League...
(born 1977), Philadelphia Phillies relief Pitcher - Chad EverettChad EverettChad Everett is an American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and television series but is probably best known for his role as Dr. Joe Gannon in the 1970s television drama Medical Center.-Early life:...
(born 1936), American actor - Chad GrayChad GrayChad Gray , is the lead vocalist for the American heavy metal bands Mudvayne and Hellyeah.-Personal life:Gray is the son of Dan and Mitzi Gray of Edgewater, Florida...
(born 1971), American lead singer for Mudvayne and Hellyeah - Chad I. Ginsburg (born 1972), lead guitarist and producer of the rock band CKY
- Chad HenneChad HenneChad Steven Henne is an American football quarterback for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League.He graduated from Wilson Senior High School and attended the University of Michigan...
(born 1985), American football player - Chad HugoChad HugoCharles Edward Hugo is an American musician and record producer. He is best known as one half of the music production and writing duo The Neptunes and as a member of the funk/rock band N.E.R.D. He is a saxophonist, pianist and guitarist...
(born 1974), American record producer - Chad KroegerChad KroegerChad Robert Kroeger is aCanadian songwriter, singer, and guitarist best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist for the Canadian rock band Nickelback...
(born 1974), lead singer and guitarist for Nickelback - Chad LevittChad LevittChad Levitt is an American former NFL football player.He is Jewish, was born in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, is 6–1, and had a playing weight of 231 pounds...
(born 1975), American NFL football player - Chad Michael MurrayChad Michael MurrayChad Michael Murray is an American actor, former fashion model and spokesperson. Murray is well known for portraying Lucas Scott in The CW young adult drama series One Tree Hill, in addition to the commercially successful films A Cinderella Story, Freaky Friday and House of Wax...
(born 1981), American actor - Chad Ochocinco (born 1978), American football player
- Chad of MerciaChad of MerciaChad was a prominent 7th century Anglo-Saxon churchman, who became abbot of several monasteries, Bishop of the Northumbrians and subsequently Bishop of the Mercians and Lindsey People. He was later canonized as a saint. He was the brother of Cedd, also a saint...
, seventh-century Anglo-Saxon churchman and saint - Chad PenningtonChad PenningtonJames Chadwick "Chad" Pennington is an American football quarterback who played in the National Football League for ten years. He is currently a football analyst with FOX Sports though he plans to return to playing after recovering from an injury...
(born 1976), American football player - Chad PeraltaChad PeraltaRichard Edward Peralta or Richard Peralta, also known as Chad Peralta or Chad only, is a singer and actor from the Philippines. He is a Filipino-Australian born in Sydney, Australia.-Education:...
(born 1985), Filipino-Australian singer and actor - Chad RandallChad RandallChad Randall, is an Australian professional rugby league footballer with the Harlequins RL club of Europe's Super League. Randall's usual position is hooker...
(born 1980), Harlequins Rugby League player - Chad RobinsonChad RobinsonChad Robinson is an Australian professional rugby league footballer.He will join European Super League side Harlequins RL for the 2009 season...
(born 1980), Harlequins Rugby League player - Chad SmithChad SmithChad Smith is an American musician, best known as the longtime and current drummer of Red Hot Chili Peppers. Smith is also the drummer of the hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot which includes Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, and Michael Anthony, former Deep Purple vocalist Glenn Hughes' backing band and...
(born 1961), drummer for Red Hot Chili Peppers - Chad SextonChad SextonChad Ronald Sexton is the drummer for American rock band 311. He grew up in Omaha, Nebraska and went to Westside High School with fellow band members Nick Hexum and Tim Mahoney....
(born 1970), drummer for 311 - Chad TrujilloChad TrujilloChadwick A. "Chad" Trujillo is an astronomer and the co-discoverer of the dwarf planet Eris.Trujillo works with computer software and has examined the orbits of the numerous trans-Neptunian objects , which is the outer area of the solar system that he specialized in. In late August 2005, it was...
(born 1973), astronomer and the co-discoverer of the dwarf planet Eris - Chad UrmstonChad UrmstonChad Stokes Urmston is an American musician. Urmston was a member of the band Hermit Thrush which later gave birth to the band Dispatch. He is the frontman for the Sherborn, Massachusetts-area band State Radio, as well as a constant activist for improved living conditions in Zimbabwe...
(born 1976), lead singer and guitarist for Dispatch and State Radio - Chad VarahChad VarahReverend Prebendary Edward Chad Varah, CH, CBE was a British Anglican priest. He is best remembered as the founder of The Samaritans, established in 1953 as the world's first crisis hotline organisation, offering non-religious telephone support to those contemplating suicide.-Life:Varah was born...
(1911–2007), founder of The Samaritans, crisis hotline organization - Chad VaughnChad VaughnChad Vaughn is an Olympic Weightlifter from Oklahoma. Currently he is ranked number one in the country as a part of the 77 kg body weight class....
(born 1980), American weightlifter
People with the surname
- Dominic ChadDominic ChadDominic Chad is an English rock guitarist and former member of the rock band Mansun.He reportedly changed his name by deed poll to Dominic Brian Chad in 1998, due to his fixation with the now deceased Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones.Chad is an arranger and songwriter, having co-written...
(born 1972), English rock guitarist, - Norman ChadNorman ChadNorman Chad is an American sportswriter and syndicated columnist who is seen on the sports channel ESPN. He also was an occasional guest host on the ESPN show Pardon the Interruption and has appeared as both host and movie critic on the ESPN Classic series Reel Classics.He writes a weekly...
(born 1958), American sportswriter and syndicated columnist
Fictional characters
- Chad, a character also known as Yasutora SadoYasutora Sadois a fictional character in the anime and manga series Bleach created by Tite Kubo. He is an extremely tall teenager who studies in the same class as Ichigo Kurosaki...
, in the manga and anime series Bleach - Chad, a spokesman in commercials for AlltelAlltelAlltel Corporation is a wireless service provider, primarily based in the United States. Before an acquisition by Verizon Wireless, it served 34 states. After the merger, Alltel continues to serve six states, mostly in rural areas...
, played by comedian Chad Brokaw - Chad Danforth from the High School Musical franchise
- Chad Dickson, a character in Codename: Kids Next DoorCodename: Kids Next DoorCodename: Kids Next Door, also known as Kids Next Door or by its acronym KND, is an American animated television series created by Tom Warburton and produced by Curious Pictures in Santa Monica, California.. The series debuted on Cartoon Network on December 6, 2002 and aired its final episode on...
media - Chad Dylan Cooper, a character in the television series Sonny With a ChanceSonny With a ChanceSonny with a Chance is an American children's sitcom which aired on Disney Channel, created by Steve Marmel, that follows the experiences of teenager Sonny Munroe, portrayed by Demi Lovato, who becomes the newest accepted cast member of her favorite live comedy show, So Random!.The series debuted...
- Chad VaderChad VaderChad Vader: Day Shift Manager is an American comedy web series created by Aaron Yonda and Matt Sloan, who are also credited as actors, directors, editors and writers of the program. The show's central character is Chad Vader, the day-shift manager at the fictional supermarket Empire Market, who...
, an Internet Star Wars fan series
See also
- Chad Johnson (disambiguation)
- Chad Smith (disambiguation)Chad Smith (disambiguation)Chad Smith is the drummer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.Chad Smith may also refer to:* Chad Smith , drummer in the band G/Z/R* Chad Smith , American decathlete* Chad Smith , American soccer player...
- Chad Butler (1973–2007), American rapper, better known as Pimp CPimp CChad Lamont Butler , better known by his stage name Pimp C, was an American rapper, singer, and producer...
- Chad Stuart (born 1941), one half of the pop duo of Chad & Jeremy