In 2025, 1,904 US boys were named Chase, making it the 192nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 19 places from #173 in 2024. That is 253 fewer than the 2,157 boys named Chase in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #61, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 7,394. For comparison, it was #74 in 2015 and #2,607 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chase in 106 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 5 babies. In all, 184,958 US babies have been given the name, 2.1% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 58,655 babies named Chase.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 30,784 US boys were named Chase; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 4,868. In 2025 that was about 1 in 897 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Chase ranked highest in Maine in 2025, at #62 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 6 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Chaz (10,074 babies since 1880), Chas (3,223 babies since 1880), Chayse (3,169 babies since 1880) and Chaise (1,448 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Chaze, Chaos and Chais are summarised on this page.