Chance — #418 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Chance

The Social Security Administration has registered 53,890 babies named Chance between 1883 and 2024, spanning 142 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Chance currently holds the #418 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 2,243 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chance performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 14,338 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Chance shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 6,128 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Chance in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chance in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 53,890 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.