How rare is the name Chace?

4,471 people in the United States have the first name Chace, about 1 in 67,553. It ranks #4,254 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

CHACE

#4,254

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,471
About
1 in 67,553
This common or more
83.8%
Who bears it

Of the 4,471 people named Chace, 62.6% reported their origin as White, 20.8% as Black and 6.4% as two or more races. 96.6% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Chace peaked in 2009, when 521 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19702025
Peak year
2009
Births that year
521
In 2025*
46 ▼91%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 5,545 babies have been given the name since 1970. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Chace by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #2,094. The largest share of babies named Chace, 53.4%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#10,36067
1980s#4,372346
1990s#2,899879
2000s#2,2721,720
2010s#2,0942,156
2020s#4,792377
Generation X 1965–801.3%
Millennials 1981–9616.2%
Generation Z 1997–1253.4%
2013 and later29%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Chace is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Chace has been most common in Florida (2.3×), Michigan (2.1×), and Massachusetts (1.9×), and least common in Tennessee (0.61×).

3,106 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Chace

1 other first name also has 4,471 people.

#4,254 Jaci · 4,471

Either side of Chace

#4,250 Dwain · 4,473#4,253 Avianna · 4,472#4,254 Jaci · 4,471#4,256 Marcial · 4,470

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Chace, most common first.

#356 Chase · 157,104#8,273 Chayce · 1,759#36,405 Chaze · 218

Also a last name

As a last name, Chace ranks #15,558 of 156,621, with 1,809 people. See Chace as a last name

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