# Chace (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/chace/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,545 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,405 / 140 (3% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 408, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Variant of Chase.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 9 | 9,649 |
| 2001 | 9 | 10,275 |
| 2002 | 6 | 13,936 |
| 2003 | 6 | 14,204 |
| 2006 | 10 | 10,754 |
| 2007 | 6 | 15,886 |
| 2008 | 8 | 12,834 |
| 2009 | 9 | 11,658 |
| 2010 | 6 | 15,355 |
| 2011 | 6 | 15,223 |
| 2012 | 5 | 17,424 |
| 2013 | 8 | 12,230 |
| 2016 | 7 | 13,192 |
| 2017 | 5 | 16,381 |
| 2018 | 6 | 14,158 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 271 | 810 |
| 2012 | 265 | 825 |
| 2013 | 242 | 872 |
| 2014 | 213 | 982 |
| 2015 | 226 | 934 |
| 2016 | 169 | 1,142 |
| 2017 | 142 | 1,277 |
| 2018 | 117 | 1,481 |
| 2019 | 97 | 1,663 |
| 2020 | 88 | 1,748 |
| 2021 | 68 | 2,112 |
| 2022 | 74 | 2,041 |
| 2023 | 50 | 2,620 |
| 2024 | 51 | 2,605 |
| 2025 | 46 | 2,772 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 3,795 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3,912 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 25 | 1,045 |
| 2012 | 45 | 734 |
| 2013 | 29 | 976 |
| 2014 | 39 | 797 |
| 2015 | 31 | 950 |
| 2016 | 28 | 1,022 |
| 2017 | 27 | 1,068 |
| 2018 | 17 | 1,455 |
| 2019 | 6 | 3,013 |
| 2020 | 6 | 2,960 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,493 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3,048 |
| 2023 | 5 | 3,523 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3,684 |

## People named Chace

- Chace Crawford, American actor
- Richard Chace Tolman, American physicist (1881–1948)
- Edward C. Tolman, American psychologist (1886–1959)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.