Chase
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a nickname for a skilled hunter, or from southern French chase ‘house’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃeɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chase is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 3.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 5.6K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 526 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a nickname for a skilled hunter, or from southern French chase ‘house’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chase counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Chase | 26 |
| US United States | #571 | 52,481 | 1 in 6.3K | 154K | Chase | 526 |
| KP North Korea | #247 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Chase | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | #663 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 11 | Chase | 185 |
| CA Canada | #526 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | 16 | Chase | 197 |
| JM Jamaica | #147 | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Chase | 9 |
| GY Guyana | — | 399 | 1 in 1.9K | 399 | — | 9 |
| GD Grenada | — | 53 | 1 in 2.1K | 53 | — | 7 |
| AX Åland Islands | #262 | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Chase | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Chase is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Probably metonymic for a hunter, from OFr chaceur, chaceour; first attested Robert Chace 1327 SR (Ess).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, name for a huntsman, or rather a nickname for an excep¬ tionally skilled huntsman, from ME chase hunt (OF chasse, from chasser to hunt, chase, L capture; cf. Catchpole).
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, from an English surname; 'hunter'
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In English, Old French; the hunter
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Salmon Portland Chaseb. 1808USAmerican politician and lawyer (1808–1873)
- William Merritt Chaseb. 1849USAmerican painter (1849–1916)
- Margaret Chase Smithb. 1897USmember of the United States Senate from Maine (1897-1995)
- James Hadley Chaseb. 1906GBBritish writer (1906–1985)
- Martha Chaseb. 1927USAmerican geneticist
- Grace Lee Whitneyb. 1930USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and entertainer (1930-2015)
- Chevy Chaseb. 1943USAmerican actor, comedian and writer (born 1943)
- David Chaseb. 1945USAmerican screenwriter, director and producer
- Will Chaseb. 1970USAmerican actor and singer (born 1970)
- Daveigh Chaseb. 1990USAmerican actress (1990–2026)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 67 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 52K | #649 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 51K | #606 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 50K | #669 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 399 | #276 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 53 | #170 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chase mean, and where does it come from?
- from a nickname for a skilled hunter, or from southern French chase ‘house’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Chase have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 150 thousand people named Chase in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chase.
- Where is Chase most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chase is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chase?
- In the United States, the national register counted 52,481 people named Chase in 2010, about 1 in 6.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Chase compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Chase is the 147th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Chase?
- In the etymology graph, Chace, Caccia and Cazar are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Chase?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃeɪs/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Chase?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chaseThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chase” — the 147th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.