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Charlotte vs Chazz

American parents have registered 454,204 Charlottes since 1880, against 1,350 Chazzes. Charlotte is still ahead, with 13,408 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Charlotte against Chazz, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Charlotte Chazz

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Charlotte has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1996, when Charlotte had 946 and Chazz had 96.

Side by side

  Charlotte Chazz
Total US births 454,2041,350
Most in one year 13,40896
Babies in 2025 13,4085
Estimated living today 323,0001,300
Median age today 1327
Peak year 20251996
Best rank 2nd girls1,226th boys
Rank in 2025 2nd12,008th
First recorded 18801979
Girls / boys 453,433 / 77129 / 1,321

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Chazzes alive today are over 27; half the Charlottes are over 13. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Charlotte and Chazz.