Chance

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Chance: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Chance: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #878 in 2020, and it stood at #1,132 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
45times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#878highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1997	#3174
1998	#3142
2000	#3247
2002	#4137
2003	#4373
2005	#3970
2006	#3548
2008	#5545
2010	#5707
2011	#3549
2012	#3681
2013	#5742
2021	#4634
2022	#5669
2023	#4709

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #878 among boys in England and Wales, in 2020 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1132 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Chance appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 505 births with the name.

Chance across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Chance's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1040 (1996)	#878 (2020)	#1132 (2024)	29 of 29	505 (1996–2024)	33 (2020)
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#3142 (1998)	#4709 (2023)	16 of 28	62 (1996–2023)	6 (2011)

Chance by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Chance in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	54	4 of 10	14
2000s	108	10 of 10	11
2010s	207	10 of 10	21
2020sbusiest	136	5 of 10	27

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 27 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Chance appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #878 in England and Wales in 2020.

Chance's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1132	25	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1071	27	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1011	29	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1218	22	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#878	33	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1056	26	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1013	28	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1097	26	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1431	18	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1121	24	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1093	25	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1706	13	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1367	18	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3549	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1909	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1344	18	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1568	14	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1953	10	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1756	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3548	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2282	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1617	11	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1498	11	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1248	13	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1411	10	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1202	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1425	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#906	17	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1485	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#914	16	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1040	13	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #878, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 33 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Acer · #878, 28y
Eshaan · #878, 24y
Yusef · #878, 28y
Aeryn · #876, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Acer · #878, 28y
Yusef · #878, 28y
Ayanna · #876, 29y
Ellie-ann · #876, 20y

Chance was ranked #878 in England and Wales · Boys in 2020. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Chance and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Chance without appearing here.

Chance moved ahead of

Dianne Compare
In 2010 they stood at #5545 and #5545 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #3549 and #5785.
Ellinor Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3549 and #3185 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3681 and #5876.
Lene Compare
In 2011 they stood at #5707 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3681 and #5876.
Vicki Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3970 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3681 and #5876.

Moved ahead of Chance

Eabha Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3548 and #5061 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #5707 and #3156.
Ezra Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3142 and #3848 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #5545 and #3397.
Cecilie Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3970 and #4798 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #5545 and #3860.
Frida Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3247 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #4137 and #3409.

Moved the opposite way to Chance

Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Chance went from #3174 to #4709 while Ezra went from #3824 to #1135.
Frida Compare
Between 2000 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Chance went from #3247 to #4709 while Frida went from #3912 to #851.
Hayden Compare
Between 2000 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Chance went from #3247 to #4709 while Hayden went from #3912 to #2346.

Moved the same way as Chance

Brittany Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Chance went from #3795 to #5669 and Brittany from #186 to #3533.
Carmel Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Chance went from #3795 to #5669 and Carmel from #1168 to #3533.
Debra Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Chance went from #3795 to #5669 and Debra from #1364 to #5669.
Karen Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Chance went from #3795 to #5669 and Karen from #417 to #4645.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #878 in England and Wales in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Chance

Chance at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Chance across 2 official records

Chance by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Chance appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Chance

Chance and the names beside it

Chance moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Chance

Moved the opposite way to Chance

Moved the same way as Chance

Chance at a glance

Chance across 2 official records

Chance by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Chance appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Chance

Chance and the names beside it

Chance moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Chance

Moved the opposite way to Chance

Moved the same way as Chance