Charlize
Charlize was given to 65 girls in 2025, #2,658 among girls’ names; 5,682 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,630 Americans named Charlize and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Charlize by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Charlize?
#2,658 among girls’ names, 2025
Charlize fell from #972 in 2015 to #2,658 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.16 to 0.04 per 1,000.
436 babies in 2004, the peak
Charlize peaked in 2004, when 436 girls were given it, #625 among girls’ names. The 65 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,658 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 74 | #2,443 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 87 | #2,181 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 87 | #2,175 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 123 | #1,683 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 130 | #1,610 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 144 | #1,509 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 188 | #1,240 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 187 | #1,263 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 226 | #1,120 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 278 | #972 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 261 | #1,005 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 291 | #886 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 315 | #847 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 244 | #1,022 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 249 | #1,008 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 297 | #912 | 0.16 |
| 2008 | 302 | #910 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 312 | #891 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 365 | #753 | 0.19 |
| 2005 | 279 | #899 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 436 | #625 | 0.24 |
| 2003 | 227 | #1,017 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 176 | #1,164 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 194 | #1,091 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 103 | #1,703 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,384 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,565 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Charlize a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Charlize has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Charlize: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Charlize, and how old are they?
5,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,682 Americans ever recorded as Charlize. The median Charlize alive today is 16 years old; half are between 11 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 4,634 people named Charlize (4,624 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,111 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,510 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,130 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Charlize born?
The states with the most babies named Charlize are California, Florida and Texas, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 12 | #1,763 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,575 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,396 | 0.8× |
Where Charlize is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Charlize is most over-represented in California: since 1998 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Charlize with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Charlize
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Charlize and names like it
- Compare Charlize and CadenceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCharlize peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Charlize since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Charlize.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Charlize alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.