Chayse
Masculine · “hunter”
Chayse is given to both — 2,288 boys and 881 girls since 1880. See Chayse as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Chayse is a respelling of Chase, and the word is a hunting one — a chase was a tract of unenclosed land where a lord had the right to hunt, less formal than a forest.
How old is the name Chayse?
Chayse first appears in US birth records in 1982 — 43 years ago. The typical Chayse alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 2,300 people named Chayse are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Chayse most popular?
Chayse peaked in 2009, reaching #1278 nationally. Today it ranks #3848, 2,570 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.
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Where it comes from
From chacier to Chayse
The story of Chayse
Medieval England distinguished a royal forest, under forest law, from a chase, which a subject could hold — Cannock Chase and Cranborne Chase both survive as place names. The surname belonged to huntsmen. An American Chief Justice and Treasury Secretary carried it, and a bank still does. Its use as a given name rose sharply in the 1990s and Chayse is one of the respellings.
Meaning
hunter; a hunting ground
From Old French chacier, to hunt, from a Latin verb meaning to catch; the surname was given to a huntsman. In English land law a chase was private hunting ground outside the forest law, as at Cannock Chase.
How the name formed
- chacier
- Chase
- Chayse
Related forms: Chase · Chasse
Pronouncing Chayse
CHAYSS
One syllable. Chayse and Chase are said identically.
Nicknames for Chayse
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
- 2009137 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1278reached in 2009
- Change vs 2024
- −9.7%28 in 2025, from 31
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.
Chayse in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Chase in English — spelling variant
- Chasse in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Illinois, California.
Chayses among us
people named Chayse are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 61,003 born in 2025 was named Chayse
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Chayse
- #3848
- Chayse on the 2025 chart
- #855
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Chayse went to 28 boys in 2025, but Chayce 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 — 2,993 places above the chart.
- Chayce45
- Chayse28
About 1 boy in 23,398 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 61,003 for Chayse 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 Agapito test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Chayse's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Agapito climbed just as high around 1926, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Agapito's path sketches the road Chayse is walking now.
Chayse 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 Chayse is headed
Chayse should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium 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.
Chayse beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Chayse in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a real piece of English land law behind it.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Six letters and one syllable, quick to write.
- Chase is the standard spelling and will be written for him constantly.
- A large American bank carries the surname, which is a strong association.
- The y adds a letter without changing the sound at all.
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Frequently asked
- How many Chayses are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,300 people named Chayse are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Chayse?
- Chayse is one of 2 recorded spellings. Chayce is the more common one — 45 births in 2025 against 28 for Chayse.
- How popular is the name Chayse in 2025?
- Chayse ranks #3848 among US boy names in 2025, with 28 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Chayse?
- About 1 in every 61,003 US boys born in 2025 was named Chayse — 28 in all.
- Will my child share the name Chayse with classmates?
- Chayse will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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