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Charlize

#2,658 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Charles

Charlize has been given to 5,682 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #2,658 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 436 recorded.

Babies named Charlize, 2025

1 in 51,000

Charlize over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Charlize: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Charles

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Charlize means

Charlize is a feminine form of Charles.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Charlize → Charles. The family’s meaning is “free man”, recorded in English with the source elements karilaz.

Origin, language, and formation

Charlize is used in Afrikaans.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charles.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Afrikaans, Charlize is pronounced [ʃarˈliz].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,682 girls were recorded with the name Charlize between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 436 in 2004; its best national rank was #625 in 2004.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,610 in 2020 to #2,658 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #972 in 2015 to #2,658 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Charlize?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 51,000
65 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 24,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,658
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
35,353 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Charlize sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 35,353 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charlize. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Charlizes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Charlize was born before 2010 — so the typical Charlize is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
47.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,682
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 47.4% of all recorded uses (2,691).

Is Charlize rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−215
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,048
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,686
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.23×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.9%
Peak was 2004 (436)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#625
2004

Spellings of Charlize

Charlize is not the most common spelling — Charlene is, with 54.3% against Charlize's 2.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Charlize is used

Across 2016–2025, Charlize was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 11,962 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 50,000).

216 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 6,250
  2. 2New York1 in 7,692
  3. 3Florida1 in 9,091
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 10,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in 12,500
  6. 6Texas1 in 14,286
  7. 7Illinois1 in 16,667
  8. 8Nevada1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Charlize around the world

Where Charlize ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    2001–2010
    #802
    in 2010
  • Northern Ireland
    2004–2004
    #316
    in 2004
  • Ireland
    2004–2011
    #937
    in 2011
  • France
    2001–2025
    #407
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #1,469
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2013
    #233
    in 2013
  • New South Wales
    2006–2006
    #99
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Charlize

People whose public names include Charlize, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Charlize by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,658
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,048
Best rank ever
#625
2004
Peak year
2004
436 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,682
Count in 2025
65

Names similar to Charlize

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Charlize

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Charlize, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Charlize

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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