How Many People Are Named Charlize?

5,636

people named Charlize are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 60,643 people in the US has this name

Based on 5,682 babies named Charlize in Social Security records from 1998 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,448

๐Ÿ’Ž๐Ÿ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,924

See the top 100

Peak Year

2004

436 births

Trend

โ†’

Stable (last 10 years)

๐Ÿ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Southern African, Afrikaans
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Feminine form of CHARLES using the popular Afrikaans name suffix ize. This name was popularized by South African actress Charlize Theron (1975-), who was named after her father Charles.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

โšง Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Charlize in the records were girls.

๐Ÿ‘ฅ Age Distribution

The average person named Charlize alive today is about 15 years old, and 100% are under 30. Half of them were between 10 and 20 in 2025.

Under 30 5,636
100%
30 to 59 0
0%
60 and over 0
0%

๐Ÿ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Charlize first appears in the records in 1998 and was given most often in 2004, to 436 babies. In 2025, 65 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1998 to 2025

๐Ÿ† Rank History

Charlize has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #625, in 2004. In 2025 it ranked #2,658.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,658
Best rank#625 (2004)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#925 in the 2000s

๐Ÿ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Charlize alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Charlize were born in California than in any other state: about 1,258 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Charlize was given 2 times as often in California, 1.9 times in New York and 1.6 times in Arizona.

California 1,258
New York 499
Texas 464
Florida 370
New Jersey 169
Illinois 168
Arizona 155
Ohio 137
Pennsylvania 118
Colorado 112
Washington 97
Georgia 93
Michigan 81
Virginia 69
Massachusetts 67
Wisconsin 48
Nevada 46
North Carolina 42
Minnesota 39
Missouri 37
Indiana 35
Maryland 32
Tennessee 29
New Mexico 17
Connecticut 16
Oklahoma 15
Utah 15
Iowa 11
Idaho 8
Rhode Island 6
South Carolina 5
Kansas 5
Kentucky 5
Nebraska 5
Louisiana 5

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