Chaz
Last seen for girls in 2021 at #15,251 · #4,539 for boys in 2025, 22 births
Given to boys 98.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1988 · 526 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,909since 1974
Chaz over time
Rank among boys' names. Chaz has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #4,539 | 22 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,789 | 46 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,117 | 39 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,408 | 58 | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #2,277 | 61 |
| 2020 | — | #1,922 | 76 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,081 | 69 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,838 | 82 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,541 | 106 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,501 | 113 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,427 | 120 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,436 | 115 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,475 | 111 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,367 | 123 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,155 | 155 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,119 | 168 | |
| 2009 | — | #991 | 199 | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #949 | 212 |
| 2007 | — | #889 | 226 | |
| 2006 | — | #906 | 214 | |
| 2005 | — | #896 | 201 | |
| 2004 | — | #917 | 185 | |
| 2003 | — | #791 | 220 | |
| 2002 | — | #814 | 208 | |
| 2001 | — | #707 | 250 | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #701 | 251 |
| 1999 | — | #751 | 213 | |
| 1998 | — | #706 | 236 | |
| 1997 | — | #663 | 247 | |
| 1996 | — | #599 | 296 | |
| 1995 | — | #564 | 329 | |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | #563 | 331 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #521 | 382 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 | #511 | 393 |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 | #469 | 446 |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 | #449 | 486 |
| 1989 | #5,545 | 15 | #416 | 499 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 | #379 | 526 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | #502 | 317 |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 | #636 | 198 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | #611 | 204 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #627 | 185 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | #525 | 252 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | #551 | 245 |
| 1981 | — | #694 | 154 | |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | #751 | 136 |
| 1979 | — | #984 | 81 | |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | #1,371 | 45 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #1,367 | 44 |
| 1976 | — | #2,329 | 19 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,428 | 10 | |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Chaz! It came in at #5,227, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Chaz
- 1,750 spots since 2024 (#2,789 → #4,539)
- 2,617 spots since 2020 (#1,922 → #4,539)
- 3,112 spots since 2015 (#1,427 → #4,539)
- Biggest jump: 387 spots in 1979 (#1,371 → #984)
- Biggest drop: 128 spots in 2010 (#991 → #1,119)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 1988 at #379 (526 births)
- Births halved by 1997, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 1979–2009
- Highest: 1 in 3,639 boys born in 1988 were named Chaz (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 77,640 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.9% of all boys named Chaz (3,359) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 204 | #984 (1979) | #2,451 |
| 1980s | 2,716 | #379 (1988) | #569 |
| 1990s | 3,359 | #449 (1990) | #580 |
| 2000s | 2,166 | #701 (2000) | #856 |
| 2010s | 1,162 | #1,119 (2010) | #1,494 |
| 2020s | 302 | #1,922 (2020) | #2,842 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Chaz in 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 148,405 of them was named Chaz, which outranked 54.8% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,895Willette13
- #5,895Wynne13
- #5,895Yury13
- #6,277Chaz12
- #6,277Aaren12
- #6,277Abigael12
- #6,277Addy12
- #6,666Abbe11
- #6,666Abriana11
- #6,666Adeola11
Tied with 388 names at #6,277; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 3,639 of them was named Chaz, which outranked 95.5% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).