Chance
Recorded for both sexesGen Z2025 rank
#442
down −24 places
2025 births
711
down −51 births
All-time births
54,622
1% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1996
- 2,243 births
- Best rank
- #154
- in 1996
- First recorded
- 1883
- #919 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 2004
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 77 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 19962,243#154Peak
- 19971,715#191
- 20001,694#212
- 20111,635#215
- 19951,631#189
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #154 in 1996 · peak births 2,243 in 1996
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 98% boys■ 2% girls
54,622 boys · 1,388 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Chance has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.