The story in the numbers

179,216 boys have been named Chase in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 7,393 births — 0.37% 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 78 → 173).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2000s alone account for 32%. It has spent 54 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 23 of them in the top 100.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 3,762 girls have also been given it, 2.1% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

By decade

Decade

boys named Chase

216

1,149

16,561

40,307

57,173

50,334

13,168

In 2009, its biggest year

Chase was the 61st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2009 were Jacob, Ethan, Michael, Alexander and William. See all of 2009.

Names that rose and fell with Chase

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

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.