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Chantell vs Chase

American parents have registered 184,958 Chases since 1880, against 3,496 Chantells. Chase is still ahead, with 1,939 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Chantell 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

Of the 106 years in which either name was published, Chase for 101 years and Chantell for 5 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Chantell Chase
Total US births 3,496184,958
Most in one year 1557,494
Babies in 2025 under 51,939
Estimated living today 3,400181,000
Median age today 3919
Peak year 19912009
Best rank 1,144th girls61st boys
Rank in 2025 unranked192nd
First recorded 19581885
Girls / boys 3,491 / 53,798 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Chantells alive today are over 39; half the Chases are over 19. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

Country Chantell Chase
England and Wales 1333,684
Scotland 1286
Ireland 2332

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: Chantell and Chase.