Meaning and history
Originally a diminutive of Chauncey, Chance is now usually given as a reference to the English word chance, meaning “luck” or “fortune,” which ultimately comes from Latin cadens, “falling.”
20062006: 1,269 births, rank #274
2007: 1,472 births, rank #244
2008: 1,403 births, rank #250
2009: 1,521 births, rank #236
2010: 1,440 births, rank #244
20112011: 1,635 births, rank #215
2012: 1,513 births, rank #238
2013: 1,520 births, rank #237
2014: 1,534 births, rank #244
2015: 1,467 births, rank #250
20162016: 1,347 births, rank #272
2017: 1,347 births, rank #268
2018: 1,321 births, rank #270
2019: 1,214 births, rank #284
2020: 1,202 births, rank #279
20212021: 1,035 births, rank #322
2022: 985 births, rank #340
2023: 853 births, rank #377
2024: 762 births, rank #418
20252025: 711 births, rank #442
Chance moved from #418 to #442 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1996, with 2,243 births.