Chase ranks at #103 with 974 entries, tied with Benny just above, and the two names could not be doing more different work. Chase is action-coded, athletic, and slightly all-American. It lands on Labradors, golden retrievers, and high-energy mixes more than on any small companion breed.
The verb-name family
Chase belongs to a small but distinctive group of pet names that are also verbs: Chase, Scout, Hunter, Dash. These names project behavior. Owners are not just naming the dog; they are describing what the dog already does or what they hope the dog will do. The breed concentration on retrievers is correspondingly tight, since chasing is what those dogs are bred for.
One counter-reading: PAW Patrol introduced a character named Chase in 2013, and the show became a fixture of toddler television through the 2010s. A meaningful share of younger families pick the name because their kids picked it, which is its own coherent owner segment. The name was already climbing before the show, but the show accelerated it.
The sound is single-syllable engineering
One syllable, hard CH attack, clean S landing. The phonetic structure is in the same family as Rex and Duke — short, sharp, easy for dogs to lock onto in noisy environments. The name reads as American action-movie clean, which matches the breeds it lands on.
The human Chase has been a stable SSA top-100 baby name for two decades. The baby name page shows the trajectory.