Gender:
Origin:
English,
French
65 famous people named Chance found on Wikipedia.
47749 male, 1199 female in US.
Most recent ranking:
270-th in year 2018
Best ranking:
154-th in year 1996
Used in: English
Chance is a masculine given name and a surname. The given name is of Middle English origin, meaning "good fortune". There are several variants. The surname is of Old French origin, from cheance, also Middle English chea(u)nce (meaning "fortune", "luck", "accident"). The oldest public record of the surname dates to 1310 in Essex.
C. 1300, "something that takes place, what happens, an occurrence" (good or bad, but more often bad), from Old French cheance "accident, chance, fortune, luck, situation, the falling of dice" (12c., Modern French chance), from Vulgar Latin *cadentia "that which falls out," a term used in dice, from neuter plural of Latin cadens, present participle of cadere "to fall," from PIE root *kad- "to lay out, fall or make fall" (see case (n.1)). In English frequently in plural, chances. The word's notions of "opportunity" and "randomness" are as old as the record of it in English and now all but crowd out the word's original notion of "mere occurrence." Main chance "thing of most importance" is from 1570s, bearing the older sense. The mathematical (and hence odds-making) sense is attested from 1778. To stand a chance (or not) is from 1796. To take (one's) chances "accept what happens" (early 14c.) is from the old, neutral sense; to take a chance/take chances is originally (by 1814) "participate in a raffle or lottery or game;" extended sense of "take a risk" is by 1826.
Good fortune, good luck, chancellor in Middle English origin, from French chancellor.
| Popularity | Name | Birth Year | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chance the Rapper | 1993 | American rapper from Chicago |
| 2 | Greyson Chance | 1997 | Singer-pianist, gained fame on YouTube |
| 3 | Chance Warmack | 1991 | All-American college football player, professional football player, offensive guard |
| 4 | Chance Kelly | American actor | |
| 5 | Chance Phelps | 1984 | United States Marine |
| 6 | Frank Chance | 1876 | Baseball player and manager |
| 7 | Dean Chance | 1941 | American baseball player |
| 8 | Steve La Chance | 1961 | American ballet dancer and choreographer |
| 9 | Britton Chance | 1913 | Academic and sailor |
| 10 | Chance Chancellor | Fictional character from the CBS Daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless | |
| 11 | Chance Myers | 1987 | American soccer player |
| 12 | Jack T. Chance | Fictional character | |
| 13 | Naomi Chance | 1930 | Actress |
| 14 | Larry Chance | 1940 | American doo wop singer |
| 15 | John Barnes Chance | 1932 | American composer |
| 16 | Chance Mock | 1981 | American football player |
| 17 | Matthew Chance | 1970 | British journalist |
| 18 | Karen Chance | 2000 | American writer |
| 19 | Chance Bateman | 1981 | Australian rules footballer |
| 20 | Michael Chance | 1955 | British opera singer |
| 21 | Chance Casey | 1991 | American football player |
| 22 | Chance Thomas | American composer | |
| 23 | Chance Ruffin | 1988 | American baseball player |
| 24 | Chance Peni | 1994 | |
| 25 | Chance M. Vought | 1890 | American aviation pioneer |
| 26 | Chance Waters | 1987 | Australian musician |
| 27 | Alex Chance | 1989 | American pornographic actress |
| 28 | Chance McKinney | American singer | |
| 29 | Amy Chance | 1975 | American actress |
| 30 | Jeff Chance | 1954 | American musician |
| 31 | Chance Browne | 1948 | Artist |
| 32 | Chance Adams | ||
| 33 | Bob Chance | 1940 | American baseball player |
| 34 | Chance Sisco | 1995 | Professional baseball player |
| 35 | Kim Chance | 1946 | Australian politician |
| 36 | Chance Fry | 1964 | American soccer player-coach |
| 37 | Floyd Chance | 1925 | American musician |
| 38 | Noel Chance | 1951 | Irish racehorse trainer |
| 39 | Michaël La Chance | 1952 | Canadian choreographer, poet and writer |
| 40 | Richie Chance | 1983 | American acting coach |
| 41 | Edgar Chance | 1881 | Businessman, ornithologist and oologist |
| 42 | Janet Chance | 1886 | British feminist and reproductive rights activist |
| 43 | Olivia Chance | 1993 | Association footballer |
| 44 | Chance Sanford | 1972 | American baseball player |
| 45 | Robert Lucas Chance | 1782 | British glass maker |
| 46 | James Chance | 1814 | Glass manufacturer and lighthouse engineer |
| 47 | Chance Comanche | ||
| 48 | Nancy Laird Chance | 1931 | American composer |
| 49 | Fred Chance | American artist | |
| 50 | Jane Chance | 1945 | American scholar specializing in medieval English literature and gender studies, |
| 51 | Chance Sumner | 1977 | American wheelchair rugby player |
| 52 | Jean C. Chance | 1939 | Academic |
| 53 | Geoffrey Chance | 1893 | Cricketer |
| 54 | Kenneth Macomb Chance | 1879 | English industrialist and founder of British Industrial Plastics, who served as Sheriff of Warwickshire |
| 55 | Chance Cummings | 1892 | American baseball player |
| 56 | Molly Chance | American actor and producer | |
| 57 | Jean-Claude Chovet de la Chance | 1750 | French politician |
| 58 | Chance Caldwell | 1959 | Pornografic actor appearing in straight and gay pornography born in former Czechoslovakia |
| 59 | Chance Irvine | 1940 | American politician |
| 60 | Thomas William Chance | 1872 | |
| 61 | Chance Ward | 1877 | American actor |
| 62 | Frederick William Chance | 1852 | British politician |
| 63 | Mark Chance | ||
| 64 | George Chance | 1885 | Photographer |
| 65 | Thomas Williams Chance | 1872 | Welsh Baptist minister and principal of the Baptist College, Cardiff |