Chase

49,533 people in the United States were counted with the surname Chase in the 2020 census, making it the 669th most common in the country. That is about one person in 6,034.

By the numbers

People: 49,533
Rank: 669th
How common: 1 in 6,034
Per 100,000: 16.6

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.1%
Black, not Hispanic 10.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Chase

Chevy Chase (born 1943)American actor, comedian and writer
James Hadley Chase (1906–1985)British writer
Daveigh Chase (1990–2026)American actress
Margaret Chase Smith (1897–1995)member of the United States Senate from Maine
Martha Chase (1927–2003)American geneticist
Salmon P. Chase (1808–1873)American politician and lawyer
David Chase (born 1945)American screenwriter, director and producer
Richard Chase (1950–1980)American serial killer, cannibal and necrophiliac

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

Surnames like Chase

Also a first name

Chase has been given to 184,958 American babies as a first name since 1885, peaking in 2009. 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.