Chason
Chason was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,767 among boys’ names; 1,249 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,220 Americans named Chason and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chason by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Chason mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Chason is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Chason?
#7,767 among boys’ names, 2025
Chason fell from #3,999 in 2015 to #7,767 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 13.6 to 5.9 per million.
53 babies in 2009, the peak
Chason peaked in 2009, when 53 boys were given it, #2,409 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,767 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,436 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,696 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,050 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,081 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,726 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,350 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 19 | #4,956 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 30 | #3,597 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,171 | 19.0 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #3,999 | 13.6 |
| 2014 | 36 | #3,096 | 18.7 |
| 2013 | 40 | #2,857 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 42 | #2,823 | 22.1 |
| 2011 | 47 | #2,593 | 24.7 |
| 2010 | 44 | #2,740 | 22.9 |
| 2009 | 53 | #2,409 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 35 | #3,234 | 17.2 |
| 2007 | 40 | #2,927 | 19.3 |
| 2006 | 41 | #2,790 | 19.9 |
| 2005 | 34 | #3,024 | 17.0 |
| 2004 | 22 | #4,030 | 11.1 |
| 2003 | 34 | #2,853 | 17.2 |
| 2002 | 28 | #3,192 | 14.4 |
| 2001 | 26 | #3,331 | 13.4 |
| 2000 | 30 | #2,922 | 15.3 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,187 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,105 | 13.1 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,618 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 31 | #2,486 | 16.4 |
| 1995 | 26 | #2,771 | 13.7 |
| 1994 | 24 | #2,951 | 12.4 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,842 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 24 | #2,847 | 12.0 |
| 1991 | 21 | #3,005 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,068 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,362 | 14.0 |
| 1988 | 21 | #2,693 | 11.0 |
| 1987 | 20 | #2,646 | 10.7 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,523 | 11.4 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,513 | 10.8 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,625 | 10.0 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,802 | 8.9 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,348 | 11.6 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,642 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,190 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,430 | 6.7 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,418 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,759 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,695 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,889 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Chason a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chason has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chason: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chason, and how old are they?
1,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,249 Americans ever recorded as Chason. The median Chason alive today is 21 years old; half are between 14 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 985 people named Chason (24 women and girls, 961 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,143 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 52 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 322 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 547 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 296 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,959 babies since 1880, Chason is the second most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 40 babies (25%), again the second 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 Chason
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 Chason and names like it
- Compare Chason and ChasenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sChason peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chason since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Chason.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Chason alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.