How rare is the name Chaz?

8,449 people in the United States have the first name Chaz, about 1 in 35,748. It ranks #2,759 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

CHAZ

#2,759

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,449
About
1 in 35,748
This common or more
80.8%
Who bears it

Of the 8,449 people named Chaz, 50.4% reported their origin as White, 29.7% as Black and 8.6% as Hispanic or Latino. 97.6% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Chaz peaked in 1988, when 538 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19742025
Peak year
1988
Births that year
538
In 2025*
22 ▼96%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 10,074 babies have been given the name since 1974. 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.

Chaz by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,171. The largest share of babies named Chaz, 53.3%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1970s#5,090217
1980s#1,1712,804
1990s#1,2083,407
2000s#1,9382,177
2010s#3,2201,162
2020s#5,551307
Generation X 1965–803.6%
Millennials 1981–9653.3%
Generation Z 1997–1232.9%
2013 and later10.2%

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 Chaz is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Chaz has been most common in Hawaii (7.3×), Louisiana (3.1×), and Utah (2.7×), and least common in Iowa (0.31×).

7,475 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.

Either side of Chaz

#2,756 Omari · 8,463#2,758 Robby · 8,454#2,760 Legend · 8,448#2,761 Nidia · 8,440

Spelled almost the same

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

#8,789 Chas · 1,628#11,289 Chazz · 1,145#30,018 Chak · 292#30,018 Chez · 292#36,405 Chaze · 218

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