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Chaniya vs Chase

American parents have registered 184,958 Chases since 1880, against 671 Chaniyas. Chase is still ahead, with 1,939 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Chaniya against Chase, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Chaniya Chase

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Chase has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1885 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when Chaniya had 52 and Chase had 5,355.

Side by side

  Chaniya Chase
Total US births 671184,958
Most in one year 537,494
Babies in 2025 under 51,939
Estimated living today 670181,000
Median age today 1819
Peak year 20072009
Best rank 3,214th girls61st boys
Rank in 2025 unranked192nd
First recorded 19961885
Girls / boys 671 / 03,798 / 181,160

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Chaniya Chase
England and Wales 123,684

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Chaniya and Chase.