Chace
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete spelling of chase (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Chace is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sierra Leone than in any other country, where it is the 30th most common surname.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 110K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 130Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 160Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sierra Leone (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 236 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sierra Leone, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Obsolete spelling of chase.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Chace is found
(measured from records)Chace 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SL Sierra Leone | #30 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Chace | 1 |
| US United States | — | 2,033 | 1 in 164K | 4.3K | Chace | 236 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 105K | 4 | Chace | 45 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Chace | 50 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 163K | 3 | Chace | 37 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 128K | 10 | Chace | 15 |
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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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)Chace is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In fro, hunt (action of hunting)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frp, hunt, pursuit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Ķīnā, Tibetas autonomā reģiona Žikaces prefektūrā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Oliver Chaceb. 1769USAmerican businessman (1769–1852)
- Malcolm Chaceb. 1875USUS tennis player (1875–1955)
- Marian Chaceb. 1896USAmerican dancer (1896-1970)
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chace mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete spelling of chase. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Chace?
- In the etymology graph, Chase is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Chace?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 thousand people named Chace in Sierra Leone, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chace. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Chace?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,033 people named Chace in 2010, about 1 in 164 thousand residents.
- How common is Chace compared with other names?
- In Sierra Leone, Chace is the 30th most common surname of 628 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chace?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chaceThe 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, “Chace” — the 30th most common surname in Sierra Leone. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.