Given name & surname
Chase
“a hunstman”
Chase is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “a hunstman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “a hunstman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
It entered given-name use through an existing surname.
The story
Its naming history includes the use of a family name as a given name.
Chase through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 184,958
- 181,160 boys · 3,798 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 7,494 babies
- 2025
- 1,939
- #192 for boys · #4,087 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −35%
- Cooling
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 1,904 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 192 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 35.2% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7,394 in 2009. It also appeared in 35 birth records for girls in 2025. In 2025, New York had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (157). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 157,104 as a first name in 2020; 49,533 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Chase’s family of names
Chase has a related form in Chace. Chase has a related form in Chayse. Chase has a related form in Chasen.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 21
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Chase
- Chase ElliottAmerican stock car racing driverborn 1995
- Chase BudingerAmerican basketball and beach volleyball playerborn 1988
- Chase KaliszAmerican swimmerborn 1994
- Chase JacksonAmerican shot putterborn 1994
- Chase StokesAmerican actorborn 1992
- Chase EllisonAmerican actorborn 1993
- Chase Sui WondersAmerican actress, director and screenwriter, modelborn 1996
- Chase OliverAmerican political activist and 2024 Libertarian Party presidential nomineeborn 1985
- Chase MastersonAmerican actress, singerborn 1963
Characters named Chase: Chase Edmunds (American field agent).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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