How Many People Are Named Chaz?

9,742

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

About 1 in 35,083 people in the US has this name

Based on 10,074 babies named Chaz in Social Security records from 1974 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,494

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#981

See the top 100

Peak Year

1988

538 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: CHAZ
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Diminutive of CHARLES.

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

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Chaz in English. Counting Chaz and these spellings together, about 10,989 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
1.7%
Male
98.4%

Of the babies given the name Chaz, 1.7% were girls and 98.4% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1970s: 6% of the babies were girls then and 1.6% in the 2020s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Chaz alive today is about 28 years old, and 53% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 20 and 36 in 2025.

Under 30 4,568
46.9%
30 to 59 5,174
53.1%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Chaz first appears in the records in 1974 and was given most often in 1988, to 538 babies. In 2025, 22 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1974 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Chaz has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #379, in 1988. In 2025 it ranked #4,567.

Boys
Rank in 2025#4,567
Best rank#379 (1988)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#566 in the 1990s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Chaz were born in California than in any other state: about 749 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Chaz was given 6.6 times as often in Hawaii, 3.4 times in Louisiana and 2.1 times in Ohio.

California 749
Ohio 619
Texas 613
New York 462
Florida 448
Georgia 407
Louisiana 406
Michigan 350
Pennsylvania 306
Illinois 288
Maryland 199
Hawaii 163
Utah 162
Indiana 158
Kentucky 153
Virginia 152
North Carolina 152
Arizona 146
Missouri 138
New Jersey 126
Tennessee 116
Minnesota 96
Oklahoma 90
Washington 88
Colorado 81
Wisconsin 79
Connecticut 57
Oregon 56
South Carolina 53
Alabama 51
Kansas 49
West Virginia 37
Iowa 30
Massachusetts 27
Arkansas 24
Mississippi 17
Nebraska 15
Idaho 15
Nevada 14
New Mexico 7
Montana 6
Alaska 5
South Dakota 5

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