Charlize

Where Charlize comes from

Charlize hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1975
    Charlize Theron born
    South African and American actress
  2. 1998
    First appearance
    #14,122 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 2001
    Charlize Andrews born
    Australian water polo player
  4. 2004
    Peak, #625
    436 babies named Charlize — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,263.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Charlize Theron · South African and American actress, born 1975
  • Charlize Andrews · Australian water polo player, born 2001
  • Charlize Van Zyl · South African chess player, born 1999
  • Charlize van der Westhuizen · South African former cricketer who played as a right-handed batter and slow left-arm orthodox bowler, born 1984
  • Charlize Mörz · Austrian artistic gymnast, born 2005

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.