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Chase vs Chassity

American parents have registered 184,958 Chases since 1880, against 2,236 Chassitys. Chase is still ahead, with 1,939 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Chase Chassity

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 1979, when Chase had 160 and Chassity had 54.

Side by side

  Chase Chassity
Total US births 184,9582,236
Most in one year 7,49493
Babies in 2025 1,939under 5
Estimated living today 181,0002,200
Median age today 1933
Peak year 20091988
Best rank 61st boys1,465th girls
Rank in 2025 192ndunranked
First recorded 18851972
Girls / boys 3,798 / 181,1602,236 / 0

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 Chassitys alive today are over 33; half the Chases are over 19. That is 14 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.

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