How rare is the name Charlize?

4,634 people in the United States have the first name Charlize, about 1 in 65,177. It ranks #4,142 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

CHARLIZE

#4,142

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,634
About
1 in 65,177
This common or more
83.6%
Who bears it

Of the 4,634 people named Charlize, 37.8% reported their origin as White, 31.3% as Hispanic or Latino and 10.4% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Charlize peaked in 2004, when 436 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19982025
Peak year
2004
Births that year
436
In 2025*
65 ▼85%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,682 babies have been given the name since 1998. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Charlize by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,644. The largest share of babies named Charlize, 62.3%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1990s#20,43542
2000s#1,6442,691
2010s#1,9522,383
2020s#3,694566
Generation Z 1997–1262.3%
2013 and later37.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Charlize is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Charlize has been most common in Nevada (3.2×), Arizona (2.9×), and California (2.9×), and least common in North Carolina (0.34×).

4,310 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Charlize

1 other first name also has 4,634 people.

#4,142 Ananya · 4,634

Either side of Charlize

#4,141 Berkley · 4,635#4,142 Ananya · 4,634#4,144 Crew · 4,633#4,145 Antonette · 4,632

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Charlize, most common first.

#12,476 Charlsie · 997#13,920 Charlise · 856#20,543 Charlisa · 502#20,564 Charlies · 501#21,612 Charlese · 468#33,571 Charlcie · 246#43,791 Charlis · 160#47,034 Charlice · 140

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