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 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Iowa#309 · 1 in 2,322
- Louisiana#412 · 1 in 2,443
- Ohio#420 · 1 in 4,118
- Kansas#422 · 1 in 3,093
- Maryland#433 · 1 in 3,513
Best ever in a state: #120 in Hawaii, 2001.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | #309 | 7 | 1 in 2,322 |
| Louisiana | #412 | 11 | 1 in 2,443 |
| Ohio | #420 | 17 | 1 in 4,118 |
| Kansas | #422 | 5 | 1 in 3,093 |
| Maryland | #433 | 8 | 1 in 3,513 |
| Oklahoma | #503 | 5 | 1 in 4,022 |
| Missouri | #537 | 6 | 1 in 5,734 |
| New Jersey | #582 | 8 | 1 in 6,011 |
| Washington | #586 | 6 | 1 in 5,620 |
| Michigan | #599 | 9 | 1 in 6,589 |
| Tennessee | #635 | 5 | 1 in 6,934 |
| Arizona | #641 | 5 | 1 in 6,870 |
| Pennsylvania | #645 | 8 | 1 in 8,249 |
| Texas | #657 | 22 | 1 in 7,139 |
| Illinois | #725 | 10 | 1 in 7,965 |
| Georgia | #746 | 7 | 1 in 7,169 |
| New York | #761 | 14 | 1 in 8,207 |
| California | #839 | 20 | 1 in 12,279 |
| Florida | #906 | 8 | 1 in 10,735 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 7,632 of them was named Chaz, which outranked 93.9% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.