Chance
Chance is ranked 418th among boys in 2024 (757 births). Its best rank was 154th, in 1996.
- Rank in 2024
- #418down 41 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 7570.04% of boys
- Peak year
- 19962,243 births
- Best rank
- #154in 1996
- Since 1883
- 55,254people given the name
The story in the numbers
53,890 boys have been named Chance in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1996, with 2,243 births — 0.12% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 244 → 418).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2000s alone account for 27%. It has spent 59 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,364 girls have also been given it, 2.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Chance | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1920s | 12 | |
| 1940s | 20 | |
| 1950s | 22 | |
| 1960s | 536 | |
| 1970s | 1,843 | |
| 1980s | 4,726 | |
| 1990s | 13,231 | |
| 2000s | 14,338 | |
| 2010s | 14,328 | |
| 2020s | 4,824 |
In 1996, its biggest year
Chance was the 154th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1996 were Michael, Matthew, Jacob, Christopher and Joshua. See all of 1996.
Names that rose and fell with Chance
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mahmoudpeak 2018
- Aarenpeak 2003
- Destinpeak 2001
- Mckaypeak 1995
- Syedpeak 2000
- Alekpeak 1999
- Mohamadpeak 1999
- Nikolaspeak 2004
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.