# Chance (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/chance/  
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 | [t͡ʃʰɛəns~t͡ʃʰeəns], 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 56,010 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 54,622 / 1,388 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 581, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 25 | 5,401 |
| 2012 | 30 | 4,738 |
| 2013 | 34 | 4,265 |
| 2014 | 34 | 4,286 |
| 2015 | 29 | 4,751 |
| 2016 | 33 | 4,362 |
| 2017 | 27 | 4,953 |
| 2018 | 36 | 4,018 |
| 2019 | 30 | 4,565 |
| 2020 | 20 | 5,904 |
| 2021 | 35 | 4,115 |
| 2022 | 23 | 5,500 |
| 2023 | 27 | 4,898 |
| 2024 | 28 | 4,794 |
| 2025 | 22 | 5,593 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,635 | 215 |
| 2012 | 1,513 | 238 |
| 2013 | 1,520 | 237 |
| 2014 | 1,534 | 244 |
| 2015 | 1,467 | 250 |
| 2016 | 1,347 | 272 |
| 2017 | 1,347 | 268 |
| 2018 | 1,321 | 270 |
| 2019 | 1,214 | 284 |
| 2020 | 1,202 | 279 |
| 2021 | 1,035 | 322 |
| 2022 | 985 | 340 |
| 2023 | 853 | 377 |
| 2024 | 762 | 418 |
| 2025 | 711 | 442 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 4 | 3,174 |
| 1998 | 4 | 3,142 |
| 2000 | 4 | 3,247 |
| 2002 | 3 | 4,137 |
| 2003 | 3 | 4,373 |
| 2005 | 4 | 3,970 |
| 2006 | 5 | 3,548 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5,545 |
| 2010 | 3 | 5,707 |
| 2011 | 6 | 3,549 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,681 |
| 2013 | 3 | 5,742 |
| 2021 | 4 | 4,634 |
| 2022 | 3 | 5,669 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,709 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 | 1,909 |
| 2012 | 18 | 1,367 |
| 2013 | 13 | 1,706 |
| 2014 | 25 | 1,093 |
| 2015 | 24 | 1,121 |
| 2016 | 18 | 1,431 |
| 2017 | 26 | 1,097 |
| 2018 | 28 | 1,013 |
| 2019 | 26 | 1,056 |
| 2020 | 33 | 878 |
| 2021 | 22 | 1,218 |
| 2022 | 29 | 1,011 |
| 2023 | 27 | 1,071 |
| 2024 | 25 | 1,132 |
| 2025 | 14 | 1,798 |

## People named Chance

- Chance Perdomo, British actor (1996–2024)
- Chance Kelly, American actor
- Chance Myers, American soccer player
- B. Chance Saltzman, 2nd U.S. Space Force chief of space operations

## 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.