Chance
Meaning
from the word "chance"
The story
Chance is the wager as a name, and its record holds one of the strangest crests in our records: not a spike but a plateau, about 13,600 in the 1990s, 14,700 in the 2000s, and 14,600 in the 2010s, three decades within a band of eleven hundred, a name that found its level and simply held it while fashions churned around it. The settle is now on: 5,700 so far this decade. The build was classic word-name: about 540 in the 1960s, 1,900, 4,900, then the plateau. In our records it goes to boys about 54,600 to 1,400. A Chicago rapper wore it through the plateau's last decade and the level never moved, which rather proves the point: some names are bets that keep paying at the same steady odds, and the record shows three decades of families taking them.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Chance peaked in the 2010s.
When you meet Chance
Most people given the name Chance in the United States are teenagers or young adults today.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Chance deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Chance truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Chance fits with your family’s names and surname.
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