Chance

At the 2020 census, 13,598 Americans bore the surname Chance — 2,594th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 22,000.

By the numbers

People: 13,598
Rank: 2,594th
How common: 1 in 22,000
Per 100,000: 4.6

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Chance described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 69.4%
Black, not Hispanic 19.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Chance

Greyson Chance (born 1997)American singer, songwriter, and musician
Britton Chance (1913–2010)American biochemist and Olympic sailor
James Chance (1953–2024)American saxophonist, composer, singer and pianist
Olivia Chance (born 1993)New Zealand footballer

People named Chance with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Chance

Also a first name

Chance has been given to 56,010 American babies as a first name since 1883, peaking in 1996. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.