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Chaz

The boy's name Chaz has been in the national records since 1974, with 10,074 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 4,539th. About 9,700 Chazes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Chaz boys named Chaz

By the numbers

Total US births
10,074
Estimated living today
9,700
Median age today
30
Peak year
1988
Best rank
379th
Rank in 2025
4,539th
First recorded
1974
Girls / boys
165 / 9,909

How old the living Chazes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 10,074 babies given the name since 1974, about 9,700 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 1,900 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 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 Chazs

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

Where Chaz is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Chaz is most concentrated in Hawaii (7.3×), Louisiana (3.1×), Utah (2.7×), Georgia (2.0×).

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

Names of 1988

The most popular boys’ names the year Chaz peaked:

All the names of 1988

Chaz elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Chaz 50 1,771st

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

Chaz 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.