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Chas

#12,379 in 2025Boys' name

Free man, through Charles

Chas has been given to 3,223 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #12,379 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1915, with 99 recorded.

Babies named Chas, 2025

1 in 663,000

Chas over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chas: meaning, origin, and history

Free man, through Charles

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chas means

Chas belongs to the name family reached through Chas → Charles. Its meaning is “free man”.

Origin, language, and formation

Chas is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charles.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,213 boys were recorded with the name Chas between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 99 in 1915; its best national rank was #222 in 1880.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,737 in 2015 to #12,379 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Chas between 1919 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1919; its best national rank was #4,942 in 1919.

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 Chas?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,379
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chas sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chas was born before 1924 — so the typical Chas is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
17.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,283
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1910s — 17.9% of all recorded uses (576).

Is Chas 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,642
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.1%
Peak was 1915 (99)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#222
1880

Spellings of Chas

Chas is not the most common spelling — Chad is, with 29.5% against Chas's 0.39%.

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 Chas is used

Across 1910–2025, Chas was most concentrated in Missouri — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 313,375 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Missouri1 in 100,000
  2. 2Ohio1 in 100,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in —
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Colorado1 in —
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Chas has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chas around the world

Where Chas 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
    1996–2008
    #4,432
    in 2008
  • Canada
    1991–2001
    #1,795
    in 2001
  • South Australia
    1980–2009
    #473
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Chas

People whose public names include Chas, 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.

Chas in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Chas. Linked forms have their own page here.

Chaz

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Chas by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,379
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#222
1880
Peak year
1915
99 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,213
Count in 2025
5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,942
1919
Peak year
1919
5 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chas

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

ChazChanChaceChazzChampChayseChayceChasenChaimChaiChaddCharlyChasonChanseChaelChaytonChavezCharltonChanceyChadrickChayChapmanChaoChanze

Names with a curve like Chas

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

WmBenjimanAnnaGustavBenjamanOlafAlmaGustaveZebWashingtonYoungDock

Sibling names for Chas

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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