Chayce
Masculine · “a hunting ground”
Chayce is given to both — 2,173 boys and 328 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Chayce is Chase with two extra letters, and behind it is a word that once had a precise legal meaning in England. A chase was not any hunting — it was a particular kind of unenclosed ground, held for hunting by a subject rather than by the king.
How old is the name Chayce?
Chayce first appears in US birth records in 1986 — 39 years ago. The typical Chayce alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 2,100 people named Chayce are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Chayce most popular?
Chayce peaked in 2010, reaching #1438 nationally. Today it ranks #2798, 1,360 places below that high. See the whole 2010 chart.
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Where it comes from
From chacier to Chayce
The story of Chayce
The Normans brought both the word and the institution, and English place-names still carry it — Cannock Chase, Cranborne Chase — where the land was held for hunting by a great family rather than by the king. The surname Chase followed, and it crossed to America early. Its rise as a first name is twentieth-century, and the respellings came with the rise: Chace, Chayce, Chaise. Each of them keeps the sound and moves the name a little further from the ordinary English verb, which is the point of them.
Meaning
a hunting ground; a huntsman
From Old French chace, a hunt or a place to hunt, from chacier, 'to pursue'. In English law a chase was land kept for hunting by someone other than the Crown, distinguished from a royal forest by who held it and by which courts governed it. The surname belonged to those who worked such ground or lived beside it. The reading is documented; the extra letters are modern.
How the name formed
- chacier
- chace
- Chase
- Chayce
Related forms: Chase · Chace · Chasse
Pronouncing Chayce
CHAYSS
One syllable, said exactly as Chase. The added y and c change the look and nothing at all in the sound.
Nicknames for Chayce
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
- 1986
- Most boys named
- 2016118 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1438reached in 2010
- Change vs 2024
- −32.8%45 in 2025, from 67
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.
Chayce in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Chase in English — spelling variant
- Chace in English — spelling variant
- Chasse in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Georgia, Texas, Florida.
Chayces among us
people named Chayce are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 37,957 born in 2025 was named Chayce
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Chayce
- #2798
- Chayce on the 2025 chart
- #855
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Chayce went to 45 boys in 2025, but Chayse is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 73, which makes it the 855th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,943 places above the chart.
- Chayce45
- Chayse28
About 1 boy in 23,398 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 37,957 for Chayce itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Rochester test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Chayce's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rochester climbed just as high around 1944, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rochester's path sketches the road Chayce is walking now.
Chayce sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Chayce is headed
Chayce should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Chayce beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Chayce in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One syllable, instantly sayable, and easy for a small child to answer to.
- A documented English surname with a real legal and landscape history behind it.
- Pairs cleanly with a longer surname, as short first names generally do.
- Chase is overwhelmingly the standard spelling and this one will be corrected for life.
- Chase, Chace and Chayce all sound identical, so the letters get given every time.
- It is also an everyday English verb, which follows the name around.
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Masculine · #2798 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Chayces are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,100 people named Chayce are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Chayce?
- Chayce is the most-used spelling in US records — 45 of the 73 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Chayse.
- How popular is the name Chayce in 2025?
- Chayce ranks #2798 among US boy names in 2025, with 45 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Chayce?
- About 1 in every 37,957 US boys born in 2025 was named Chayce — 45 in all.
- Will my child share the name Chayce with classmates?
- Chayce will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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