Chaz
Chaz was given to 22 boys in 2025, #4,567 among boys’ names; 10,074 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,730 Americans named Chaz and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 21 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chaz by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Chaz mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Chaz is “a diminutive of the male given name Charles.”
Also “a diminutive of the female given name Charlotte.”
From Chas.; Originally an abbreviation of Charles.
/t͡ʃæz/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Chaz?
#4,567 among boys’ names, 2025
Chaz fell from #1,429 in 2015 to #4,567 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 62.6 to 12.9 per million.
538 babies in 1988, the peak
Chaz peaked in 1988, when 538 babies were given it (526 boys, #379 among boys’ names). The 22 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,567 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 46 | #2,800 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,126 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,414 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,280 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 76 | #1,924 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 69 | #2,090 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 82 | #1,838 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 106 | #1,544 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 113 | #1,503 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 120 | #1,429 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 115 | #1,436 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 111 | #1,476 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 123 | #1,370 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 155 | #1,155 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 168 | #1,120 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 199 | #994 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 212 | #949 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 226 | #889 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 214 | #907 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 201 | #896 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 185 | #917 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 220 | #791 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 208 | #813 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 250 | #706 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 251 | #701 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 213 | #749 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 236 | #706 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 247 | #663 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 296 | #600 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 329 | #563 | 0.17 |
| 1994 | 331 | #562 | 0.17 |
| 1993 | 382 | #521 | 0.19 |
| 1992 | 393 | #511 | 0.20 |
| 1991 | 446 | #469 | 0.22 |
| 1990 | 486 | #448 | 0.24 |
| 1989 | 499 | #416 | 0.25 |
| 1988 | 526 | #379 | 0.27 |
| 1987 | 317 | #502 | 0.17 |
| 1986 | 198 | #636 | 0.11 |
| 1985 | 204 | #611 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 185 | #627 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 252 | #525 | 0.14 |
| 1982 | 245 | #551 | 0.14 |
| 1981 | 154 | #697 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 136 | #752 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 81 | #985 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 45 | #1,373 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 44 | #1,372 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 19 | #2,344 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,474 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,331 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Chaz a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 10,074 Americans recorded as Chaz, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 22 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Chaz: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chaz, and how old are they?
9,730 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 10,074 Americans ever recorded as Chaz. The median Chaz alive today is 31 years old; half are between 21 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 8,449 people named Chaz (205 women and girls, 8,244 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,540 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 333 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,120 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,260 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,020 |
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 Chaz born?
The states with the most babies named Chaz are California, Ohio and Texas, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 777 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 642 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 634 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 480 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 462 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 420 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Georgia | 419 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 361 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 319 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 298 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Chaz is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chaz is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1974 it was given 3.9 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 boys’ 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 Chaz with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 11,424 babies since 1880, Chaz is the most given (88% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 27 babies (81%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Chaz
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 Chaz and names like it
- Compare Chaz and ChazzBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sChaz peaked in 1988.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chaz since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Chaz.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chaz alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.