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Chase vs Chason

American parents have registered 184,958 Chases since 1880, against 1,249 Chasons. Chase is still ahead, with 1,939 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Chase Chason

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 1978, when Chase had 143 and Chason had 11.

Side by side

  Chase Chason
Total US births 184,9581,249
Most in one year 7,49453
Babies in 2025 1,93910
Estimated living today 181,0001,200
Median age today 1920
Peak year 20092009
Best rank 61st boys2,401st boys
Rank in 2025 192nd7,679th
First recorded 18851974
Girls / boys 3,798 / 181,1600 / 1,249

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.

Where each one is strongest

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

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