Entry № 1932 · English origin

Chase Chase — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ CHAYS /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Hunter (Chevy Chase; modern unisex)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "hunter (chevy chase; modern unisex)".

Chase is from the Old French chacier (to hunt) — historically a surname now used as a modern unisex given name. Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873) — male; 6th Chief Justice of the United States; co-founder of the Republican Party; appears on the US $10,000 bill. Chase Utley (born 1978) — male; MLB All-Star.

Hunter. Chase 6th US Chief Justice.

The name in its native script.

Chase
Transliteration
Chase
Pronunciation
/ tʃeɪs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Chase stands.

Chase does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Chases before her.

Real people
Chevy Chase
American SNL comedian.
born 1943
Salmon P. Chase
6th US Chief Justice.
1808 – 1873
Chase Stokes
American actor (Outer Banks).
born 1992
In fiction
Chase
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Chase.

The number behind Chase.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Chase reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.