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Chace

#2,771 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Chase

Chace has been given to 5,545 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #2,771 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 512 recorded.

Babies named Chace, 2025

1 in 72,100

Chace over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chace: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Chase

surname transfer

What Chace means

Chace is a variant of Chase.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Chace → Chase. The family’s meaning is “chase, hunt”, recorded in the naming reference for Chase.

Origin, language, and formation

Chace is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Chace is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Chase.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,405 boys were recorded with the name Chace between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 512 in 2009; its best national rank was #528 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,748 in 2020 to #2,771 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #934 in 2015 to #2,771 in 2025.

In the United States, 140 girls were recorded with the name Chace between 1996 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1997; its best national rank was #6,219 in 1997.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Chace?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 72,100
46 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 37,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,771
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
49,955 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chace sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 49,955 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chace. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chaces were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chace was born before 2009 — so the typical Chace is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,405
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.1% of all recorded uses (2,113).

Is Chace rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−166
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,023
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,837
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.20×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.0%
Peak was 2009 (512)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#528
2009

Spellings of Chace

Chace is not the most common spelling — Chad is, with 25.4% against Chace's 0.57%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Chace is used

Across 2016–2025, Chace was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 4,545 boys, against 1 in 24,546 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

122 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 4,545
  2. 2Rhode Island1 in 5,556
  3. 3Georgia1 in 10,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 16,667
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 16,667
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 16,667
  7. 7New York1 in 16,667
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Chace around the world

Where Chace ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2017–2017
    #602
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1992–2021
    #2,357
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1985–2013
    #218
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Chace

People whose public names include Chace, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Chace in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Chace. Linked forms have their own page here.

Chase

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Chace by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,771
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,023
Best rank ever
#528
2009
Peak year
2009
512 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,405
Count in 2025
46

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,219
1997
Peak year
1997
15 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
140
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chace

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ChaimChasChazChazzChampChayseChayceChasenChaddCharlyTraceChasonChanseChaelChanKaceChanningChaytonChavezGraceCharltonChaunceyChanceyCharley

Names with a curve like Chace

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Chace, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JordynBroganGiovaniCorbanKonnerJacobyMaxxGaugeGiovannyJaycobEanCamryn

Sibling names for Chace

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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