Meaning not yet researched.
Chance: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 711 in 2025. Its best rank was #154 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #154 in 1996; #442 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Chance in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#442 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #154.
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Chance: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 711 boys in 2025. Peak: #154 in 1996 · most boys in one year: 2,243 (1996).
In 2025, 711 US boys were named Chance, making it the 442nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 24 places from #418 in 2024. That is 51 fewer than the 762 boys named Chance in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #154, reached in 1996. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,243. For comparison, it was #250 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chance in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 5 babies. In all, 56,010 US babies have been given the name, 2.5% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 14,686 babies named Chance.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,777 US boys were named Chance; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 1,347. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,402 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Chance ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #199 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Chaynce, Chanc and Chaunce are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Chaynce (130), Chanc (110), Chaunce (101), Channce (22), Khance (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Chance in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 26 | #199 | #109 |
| Arkansas | 15 | #234 | #176 |
| Montana | 5 | #239 | #144 |
| North Carolina | 50 | #248 | #210 |
| Mississippi | 12 | #264 | #110 |
| Alabama | 19 | #289 | #210 |
| Nebraska | 8 | #302 | #248 |
| Florida | 62 | #315 | #198 |
| Virginia | 26 | #317 | #203 |
| Maryland | 17 | #321 | #230 |
| Georgia | 38 | #323 | #134 |
| Kentucky | 15 | #337 | #183 |
| Tennessee | 25 | #351 | #215 |
| South Carolina | 14 | #375 | #162 |
| Michigan | 23 | #380 | #204 |
| Idaho | 6 | #384 | #346 |
| Ohio | 28 | #389 | #264 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #389 | #264 |
| New Jersey | 18 | #431 | #320 |
| Oregon | 8 | #444 | #325 |
| Colorado | 12 | #472 | #247 |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #477 | #232 |
| Illinois | 21 | #490 | #330 |
| Missouri | 12 | #491 | #194 |
| Arizona | 14 | #496 | #243 |
| Iowa | 6 | #511 | #297 |
| Indiana | 13 | #515 | #238 |
| New York | 31 | #516 | #338 |
| Minnesota | 10 | #523 | #390 |
| Texas | 57 | #558 | #358 |
| Utah | 7 | #570 | #381 |
| California | 38 | #710 | #395 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #720 | #328 |
| Washington | 8 | #745 | #204 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,593 | 711 | #442 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,794 | 762 | #418 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,898 | 853 | #377 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,500 | 985 | #340 |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,115 | 1,035 | #322 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,904 | 1,202 | #279 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,565 | 1,214 | #284 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,018 | 1,321 | #270 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,953 | 1,347 | #268 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,362 | 1,347 | #272 |
| 2015 | 29 | #4,751 | 1,467 | #250 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,286 | 1,534 | #244 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,265 | 1,520 | #237 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,738 | 1,513 | #238 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,401 | 1,635 | #215 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,137 | 1,440 | #244 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,146 | 1,521 | #236 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,172 | 1,403 | #251 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,148 | 1,472 | #244 |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,683 | 1,269 | #274 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,965 | 1,275 | #258 |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,083 | 1,321 | #250 |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,306 | 1,392 | #240 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,296 | 1,450 | #233 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,722 | 1,542 | #224 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,002 | 1,694 | #212 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,744 | 1,510 | #223 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,766 | 1,542 | #209 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,938 | 1,715 | #191 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,517 | 2,243 | #154 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,162 | 1,631 | #189 |
| 1994 | 39 | #2,994 | 1,347 | #216 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,359 | 909 | #301 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,720 | 773 | #329 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,526 | 767 | #328 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,399 | 794 | #316 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,082 | 711 | #327 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,651 | 622 | #340 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,693 | 544 | #358 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,820 | 508 | #368 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,479 | 650 | #313 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,184 | 879 | #250 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,881 | 230 | #556 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,405 | 186 | #636 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,938 | 189 | #621 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,590 | 207 | #605 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,135 | 268 | #514 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,613 | 296 | #469 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,943 | 149 | #695 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,704 | 140 | #702 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,174 | 178 | #611 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,061 | 184 | #587 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,560 | 134 | #691 |
| 1972 | — | — | 167 | #610 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,509 | 197 | #586 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,158 | 127 | #729 |
| 1969 | — | — | 130 | #694 |
| 1968 | — | — | 63 | #912 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,117 | 106 | #720 |
| 1966 | — | — | 50 | #1,030 |
| 1965 | — | — | 36 | #1,278 |
| 1964 | — | — | 49 | #1,085 |
| 1963 | — | — | 52 | #1,053 |
| 1962 | — | — | 36 | #1,296 |
| 1961 | — | — | 8 | #3,134 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,722 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,326 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,073 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,025 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #3,961 |
| 1947 | — | — | 7 | #3,126 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,668 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,620 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #3,950 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #3,930 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #3,917 |
| 1883 | — | — | 5 | #919 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).