Chaz
Masculine · “free man”
Chaz is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 9,909 boys against 165 girls since 1880.
Chaz clips Charles, and the Germanic word behind it named a free man of no rank — which became the word for a king in Slavic.
How old is the name Chaz?
Chaz first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Chaz alive today was born around 1995, making them about 30 years old. About 9,600 people named Chaz are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Chaz most popular?
Chaz peaked in 1988, reaching #379 nationally. Today it ranks #4539, 4,160 places below that high. See the whole 1988 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Chaz
Ours, offered as ours. Charlemagne's name did something almost no other personal name has managed: it became the ordinary noun for a monarch across an entire language family. Polish król, Czech král, Russian korol and Hungarian király are all Karl. Caesar did the same for German Kaiser and Russian tsar. Two men's names became two words for a king in half of Europe. Chaz is four removes and eleven centuries from that.
Meaning
free man
From Germanic karl, a free man as against a noble; Charlemagne's fame made his name the Slavic word for a king, which is why Polish król and Russian korol exist. The name means the opposite of what it produced.
Pronouncing Chaz
CHAZ
One syllable. There is no variation in English.
Nicknames for Chaz
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1974
- Most boys named
- 1988526 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #379reached in 1988
- Change vs 2024
- −52.2%22 in 2025, from 46
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Chaz in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Charles in English — related form
- Karl in German — related form
- Carlos in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, Ohio.
Chazs among us
people named Chaz are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 77,640 born in 2025 was named Chaz
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Chaz
- #4539
- Chaz on the 2025 chart
- #901
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Chaz went to 22 boys in 2025, but Chas is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 27, which makes it the 901st most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,638 places above the chart.
- Chaz22
- Chas5
About 1 boy in 63,262 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 77,640 for Chaz itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Isidore test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Chaz's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Isidore climbed just as high around 1914, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Isidore's path sketches the road Chaz is walking now.
Chaz sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Chaz beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Chaz in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Germanic meaning with an extraordinary afterlife in Slavic.
- Charles stands behind it as a fuller formal option.
- Four letters and one syllable — as short as a name gets.
- It reads as a nickname, which may matter on a formal document.
- It is strongly associated with one American decade.
- A one-syllable name gives no room for a nickname.
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Masculine · #4539 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Chazs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 9,600 people named Chaz are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Chaz?
- Chaz is the most-used spelling in US records — 22 of the 27 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Chas.
- How popular is the name Chaz in 2025?
- Chaz ranks #4539 among US boy names in 2025, with 22 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Chaz?
- About 1 in every 77,640 US boys born in 2025 was named Chaz — 22 in all.
- Will my child share the name Chaz with classmates?
- Chaz will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Chaz
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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