Chance

What Chance means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Chance yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1996, with 2,243 babies; 711 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Chance?

US: Falling: down from #250 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1121 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1996, when 2,243 boys got the name (#154 that year). First in the US records in 1883.

How common

• About 1 in 2,402 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 19,424 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in LA (1.36 per 1,000 boys), MT (1.33 per 1,000 boys), AR (1.19 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Chance is #442 in the US and #1798 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 97.0% of US babies named Chance were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Chanze8 US
• Chanse7 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Chance

Boys

• Oscar#223Editor’s note Down from #181 in 2015 to #223 in 2025 in the US
• Angel#67Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #67 vs #1,307 in 2025
• Trey#883Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1999, with 1,798 babies; 269 in 2025
• Edgar#486“rich + spear”^*
• Edwin#398Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1922, with 3,827 babies; 798 in 2025
• Deacon#561Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1971, with 15 babies

For a sister

• Hope#352Editor’s note Down from #225 in 2015 to #352 in 2025 in the US
• Autumn#88Editor’s note Down from #69 in 2015 to #88 in 2025 in the US
• Faith#254Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #90 in 2015, #254 in 2025
• Destiny#635Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #186 in 2015, #635 in 2025
• Summer#151Editor’s note Up from #193 in 2015 to #151 in 2025 in the US
• Heaven#543Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #543 vs #1,133 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under English, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Chance’s. Rank is US 2025.