Charlet vs Chase
American parents have registered 184,958 Chases since 1880, against 657 Charlets. Chase is still ahead, with 1,939 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Charlet 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 110 years in which either name was published, Chase for 88 years and Charlet for 22 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
- 1885–1933 Chase ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1935–1960 Charlet ahead, apart from 3 short spells
- 1961–2025 Chase ahead
6 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Charlet | Chase | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 657 | 184,958 |
| Most in one year | 22 | 7,494 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 1,939 |
| Estimated living today | 480 | 181,000 |
| Median age today | 60 | 19 |
| Peak year | 1965 | 2009 |
| Best rank | 2,605th girls | 61st boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 192nd |
| First recorded | 1915 | 1885 |
| Girls / boys | 657 / 0 | 3,798 / 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 Charlets alive today are over 60; half the Chases are over 19. That is 41 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Charlet and Chase.