Chase
Chase is a boy's name that peaked in 2009, when it was the 61st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 192nd. About 181,000 Chases are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Chase boys named Chase
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 184,958
- Estimated living today
- 181,000
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2009
- Best rank
- 61st
- Rank in 2025
- 192nd
- First recorded
- 1885
- Girls / boys
- 3,798 / 181,160
How old the living Chases are
born that year still alive today
Of the 184,958 babies given the name since 1885, about 181,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 80,000 of them are children and 100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Chases
- Chase Elliott (born 1995)American stock car racing driver
- Chase Budinger (born 1988)American basketball and beach volleyball player
- Chase Jackson (born 1994)American shot putter
- Chase Kalisz (born 1994)American swimmer
- Chase Stokes (born 1992)American actor
- Chase Ellison (born 1993)American actor
- Fred Chase Koch (1900–1967)American chemical engineer and entrepreneur
- Chase Oliver (born 1985)American political activist and 2024 Libertarian Party presidential nominee
People named Chase with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Chase is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Chase is most concentrated in Nevada (2.3×), Delaware (2.1×), Utah (2.0×), Alaska (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2009
The most popular boys’ names the year Chase peaked:
Chase elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Chase | 3,552 | 178th |
| New Zealand boys | Chase | 174 | 80th |
| England and Wales girls | Chase | 132 | 1,530th |
| Scotland boys | Chase | 86 | 352nd |
| Ireland boys | Chase | 32 | 491st |
| Northern Ireland boys | Chase | 13 | 346th |
| Belgium boys | Chase | 5 | 1,385th |
| Poland boys | Chase | 2 birth registrations | 599th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Chase: rank by region
In 2024, Chase was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Chase | 882 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Chase among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Chase | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Chase against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.