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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Chaz is popular in 1986
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#277 · 1 in 2,360
- Kentucky#288 · 1 in 3,418
- Minnesota#356 · 1 in 6,147
- Pennsylvania#361 · 1 in 5,148
- Maryland#418 · 1 in 5,659
Best ever in a state: #120 in Hawaii, 2001.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #277 | 7 | 1 in 2,360 |
| Kentucky | #288 | 7 | 1 in 3,418 |
| Minnesota | #356 | 5 | 1 in 6,147 |
| Pennsylvania | #361 | 15 | 1 in 5,148 |
| Maryland | #418 | 5 | 1 in 5,659 |
| Ohio | #450 | 10 | 1 in 7,549 |
| Louisiana | #458 | 9 | 1 in 3,783 |
| Arizona | #493 | 5 | 1 in 5,443 |
| Florida | #669 | 8 | 1 in 9,552 |
| California | #672 | 22 | 1 in 10,377 |
| Michigan | #687 | 5 | 1 in 12,763 |
| Texas | #711 | 15 | 1 in 9,755 |
| New York | #714 | 11 | 1 in 11,109 |
| Illinois | #722 | 7 | 1 in 11,403 |
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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 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
Top boys' names in 1986
More about 1986
girls
1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 107,222 of them was named Chaz, which outranked 63.2% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,539Wayne17
- #4,539Yana17
- #4,539Yitty17
- #4,724Chaz16
- #4,724Adi16
- #4,724Adriel16
- #4,724Aeisha16
- #4,964Aaryn15
- #4,964Adelita15
- #4,964Adia15
Tied with 239 names at #4,724; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,841,515 boys got a published name in 1986; 1 in 9,301 of them was named Chaz, which outranked 91.9% of the 7,830 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).