How popular is “Chance” in the USA?

Number of people named “Chance” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Chance” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Chance” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Chance” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Chance” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Chance” by birth year

This chart shows how “Chance” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1883	5	0.000023047		5	-100%
1915	5	0.000002729		5	-100%
1922	6	0.000002621		6	-100%
1924	6	0.000002519		6	-100%
1943	5	0.000001771		5	-100%
1944	8	0.000002974		8	-100%
1947	7	0.000001943		7	-100%
1955	5	0.000001245		5	-100%
1956	5	0.000001213		5	-100%
1957	5	0.00000119		5	-100%
1959	7	0.000001684		7	-100%
1960	6	0.000001444		6	-100%
1961	8	0.000001931		8	-100%
1962	36	0.000008921		36	-100%
1963	52	0.000013137		52	-100%
1964	49	0.000012604		49	-100%
1965	36	0.00000993		36	-100%
1966	50	0.000014386		50	-100%
1967	112	0.000032991	6	106	-89%
1968	63	0.000018648		63	-100%
1969	130	0.000037407		130	-100%
1970	132	0.0000366	5	127	-92%
1971	203	0.000059143	6	197	-94%
1972	167	0.000053134		167	-100%
1973	140	0.000046405	6	134	-91%
1974	199	0.000065461	15	184	-85%
1975	193	0.00006392	15	178	-84%
1976	149	0.000049105	8	141	-89%
1977	161	0.000050685	10	151	-88%
1978	307	0.000096727	11	296	-93%
1979	281	0.00008446	13	268	-91%
1980	219	0.00006358	12	207	-89%
1981	200	0.000057814	11	189	-89%
1982	192	0.000054733	6	186	-94%
1983	241	0.000069586	11	230	-91%
1984	897	0.000257112	18	879	-96%
1985	656	0.000183799	6	650	-98%
1986	520	0.000146187	12	508	-95%
1987	561	0.000155591	17	544	-94%
1988	636	0.000172122	14	622	-96%
1989	728	0.000189364	17	711	-95%
1990	816	0.000206453	22	794	-95%
1991	789	0.000202554	22	767	-94%
1992	794	0.000206702	21	773	-95%
1993	942	0.000249849	33	909	-93%
1994	1386	0.000372816	39	1347	-94%
1995	1667	0.000455196	36	1631	-96%
1996	2293	0.000628702	50	2243	-96%
1997	1756	0.000484314	41	1715	-95%
1998	1590	0.000432276	48	1542	-94%
1999	1560	0.000422322	50	1510	-94%
2000	1725	0.000456361	31	1694	-96%
2001	1577	0.000421276	35	1542	-96%
2002	1479	0.000395635	29	1450	-96%
2003	1436	0.000377664	44	1392	-94%
2004	1371	0.000358814	50	1321	-93%
2005	1311	0.000340976	36	1275	-95%
2006	1311	0.00033138	42	1269	-94%
2007	1509	0.000377469	37	1472	-95%
2008	1430	0.000363806	28	1402	-96%
2009	1536	0.000402076	15	1521	-98%
2010	1467	0.000396944	27	1440	-96%
2011	1659	0.000453552	25	1634	-97%
2012	1543	0.000421888	30	1513	-96%
2013	1553	0.000425985	34	1519	-96%
2014	1567	0.000422785	34	1533	-96%
2015	1493	0.000403414	29	1464	-96%
2016	1380	0.000376155	33	1347	-95%
2017	1374	0.000384207	27	1347	-96%
2018	1354	0.000385108	36	1318	-95%
2019	1243	0.000358117	30	1213	-95%
2020	1219	0.000364907	20	1199	-97%
2021	1068	0.000315235	35	1033	-93%
2022	1005	0.000297062	22	983	-96%
2023	879	0.000265463	27	852	-94%
2024	784	0.000235541	27	757	-93%

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