Chaise
Masculine
Chaise is given to both — 1,083 boys and 365 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Chaise is almost certainly Chase written in French clothes, and the French word it lands on means a chair. That is not as absurd as it sounds: chaise and chair are the same word, split in two by a sound change in Paris that historians of the language can date fairly precisely, and both of them go back to a Greek word for a seat of authority.
How old is the name Chaise?
Chaise first appears in US birth records in 1982 — 43 years ago. The typical Chaise alive today was born around 2004, making them about 21 years old. About 1,100 people named Chaise are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Chaise most popular?
Chaise peaked in 1985, reaching #2226 nationally. See the whole 1985 chart.
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Where it comes from
From a Greek word for a seat of authority to Chaise
Our story of Chaise
There is a particular kind of American name that arrives by looking at a familiar word and asking what it would look like with a French ending. It is a real impulse and an old one — English has been dressing things in French since the Normans, on the reasonable grounds that it makes them look more expensive. What is unusual here is that the disguise landed on an actual French word with an actual meaning, and a meaning that is comically domestic. Nobody in the family will ever be told this. The name is said exactly like Chase, it will be heard as Chase, and only a reader who happens to know French will ever notice that the child is walking around called Chair.
Meaningnot established
Not established
As an American name this is a respelling of Chase, an English surname meaning a hunter or a hunting ground. As a French word it is a chair, and the two have nothing to do with each other. The word itself has a good history: Parisian French went through a period of turning r into z between vowels, so chaire became chaise, and both forms survived with different jobs — chaire is now a pulpit or a professorial chair, chaise is the thing you sit on. English borrowed the older form as chair and the newer one in chaise longue, which Americans have been mishearing as a lounging chair for a century.
How the name formed
- a Greek word for a seat of authority
- Latin cathedra gives Old French chaiere
- Parisian speech turns r into z and produces chaise
- English borrows the older form as chair
- American families respell Chase as Chaise in the 1980s
Related forms: Chase · Chayse
Pronouncing Chaise
CHAYSS
One syllable, exactly like Chase. The French word is said shez, with a sh at the front, and no American family using this spelling intends that.
Nicknames for Chaise
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1982
- Most boys named
- 200846 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2226reached in 1985
- Change vs 2023
- +12.5%9 in 2024, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Chaise in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Chase in English — related form
- Chayse in English — spelling variant
Chaises among us
people named Chaise are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Chaise sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It sounds like one of the most current American names of its decade while being spelled uniquely.
- It is short, strong and impossible to shorten into anything unwanted.
- It works for a son or a daughter and the record carries it on both sides.
- The spelling is a French word meaning chair, and anyone with school French will point this out.
- It will be written Chase on every document he ever receives.
- The French spelling invites a French pronunciation from readers who do not know the name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Chaises are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Chaise are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Chaise in 2025?
- Chaise is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Chaise with classmates?
- Chaise will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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