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Chas

The boy's name Chas has been in the national records since 1880, with 3,223 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 1,200 Chases are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 36.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Chas boys named Chas

By the numbers

Total US births
3,223
Estimated living today
1,200
Median age today
36
Peak year
1915
Best rank
570th
Rank in 2025
12,008th
First recorded
1880
Girls / boys
10 / 3,213

How old the living Chases are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,223 babies given the name since 1880, about 1,200 are alive — 39 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

From Chas.; Originally an abbreviation of "Charles".

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Chass

People named Chas with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Chas is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Chas is most concentrated in Ohio (3.4×), Missouri (2.7×), Illinois (2.4×), Texas (2.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1915

The most popular boys’ names the year Chas peaked:

All the names of 1915

Chas elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Chas 28 1,458th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Chas against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.