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Chaz

#4,567 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Charles

Chaz has been given to 10,074 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #4,567 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 526 recorded.

Babies named Chaz, 2025

1 in 151,000

Chaz over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chaz: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Charles

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chaz means

Chaz is a diminutive of Charles.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Chaz is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charles and Charlotte.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Chaz is pronounced /t͡ʃæz/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,909 boys were recorded with the name Chaz between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 526 in 1988; its best national rank was #379 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,924 in 2020 to #4,567 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,429 in 2015 to #4,567 in 2025.

In the United States, 165 girls were recorded with the name Chaz between 1977 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1986; its best national rank was #4,762 in 1986.

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 Chaz?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 77,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,567
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chaz 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chaz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chazs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chaz was born before 1994 — so the typical Chaz is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
33.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
9,909
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (3,359).

Is Chaz 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
−1,767
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,643
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,138
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.18×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.2%
Peak was 1988 (526)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#379
1988

Spellings of Chaz

Chaz is not the most common spelling — Chad is, with 38.9% against Chaz's 1.6%.

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 Chaz is used

Across 2016–2025, Chaz was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 37,176 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 8,333
  2. 2Maryland1 in 16,667
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 20,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 20,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 20,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 25,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 33,333
  8. 8Texas1 in 33,333

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.

Chaz around the world

Where Chaz 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
    1996–2014
    #4,632
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1992–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1981–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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 Chaz

People whose public names include Chaz, 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.

Chaz in other languages

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

ChasChazz

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

Chaz by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,567
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,643
Best rank ever
#379
1988
Peak year
1988
526 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,909
Count in 2025
22

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,762
1986
Peak year
1986
16 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
165
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chaz

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

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Names with a curve like Chaz

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

DemarcusTyrellRashadJaronRyneDeangeloJovanDonteKaseyBrandanJohnathonDarrius

Sibling names for Chaz

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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