Chace
Chace was given to 46 boys in 2025, #2,771 among boys’ names; 5,545 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,450 Americans named Chace and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 13 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chace by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Chace mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Chace is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Variant of Chase.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Chace?
#2,771 among boys’ names, 2025
Chace fell from #934 in 2015 to #2,771 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.12 to 0.03 per 1,000.
521 babies in 2009, the peak
Chace peaked in 2009, when 521 babies were given it (512 boys, #528 among boys’ names). The 46 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #2,771 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 51 | #2,605 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 50 | #2,619 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 74 | #2,040 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,111 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 88 | #1,748 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 97 | #1,663 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 117 | #1,481 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 142 | #1,277 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 169 | #1,142 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 226 | #934 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 213 | #982 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 242 | #872 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 265 | #825 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 271 | #810 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 371 | #647 | 0.19 |
| 2009 | 512 | #528 | 0.26 |
| 2008 | 367 | #661 | 0.18 |
| 2007 | 126 | #1,337 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 116 | #1,379 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 100 | #1,461 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 94 | #1,459 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 79 | #1,595 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 88 | #1,446 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 84 | #1,458 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 100 | #1,288 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 75 | #1,504 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 108 | #1,159 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 101 | #1,179 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 106 | #1,119 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 80 | #1,309 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 78 | #1,318 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 68 | #1,404 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 86 | #1,207 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 74 | #1,303 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 60 | #1,450 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 51 | #1,565 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 44 | #1,614 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 44 | #1,589 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 36 | #1,729 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 42 | #1,548 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,201 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 42 | #1,473 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,609 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,421 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,624 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,124 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #3,902 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,066 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,119 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,584 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,318 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,127 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,903 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Chace a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,545 Americans recorded as Chace, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 46 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Chace: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chace, and how old are they?
5,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,545 Americans ever recorded as Chace. The median Chace alive today is 17 years old; half are between 13 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 4,471 people named Chace (154 women and girls, 4,317 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,118 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 66 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 860 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,920 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,600 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Chace born?
The states with the most babies named Chace are Texas, Michigan and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,331 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,138 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,887 | 0.8× |
Where Chace is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chace is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1970 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Chace with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 8,046 babies since 1880, Chace is the most given (69% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 91 babies (51%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Chace
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Chace and names like it
- Compare Chace and ChayceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sChace peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chace since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Chace: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Chace.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Chace alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.