Charlize

girls:

5.5k births since 1998

#2243 (61st percentile)

overall:

5.5k births since 1998

#3657 (53rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Charlize is the #3,657 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,542 recorded births since 1998. This represents the 52.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,243 (60.8% percentile) for all time with 5,542 births since 1998.

Charlize first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1998 (first recorded for girls in 1998).

For girls, Charlize reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 42.6% percentile (ranked #538) with 216 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 216 births per million (ranked 42.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Charlize ranks #865 for girls (8.7% percentile) with 50 births per million, which is 23.0% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Charlize".

1998 2023 19982023

Key Statistics

Total Births
5,542
Peak Births
436
Peak Year
2004
First Recorded
1998
Peak Percentile
42.6%
Current Percentile
8.7%
Peak Rank
#538
Current Rank
#865
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Charlize

Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Charlize. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 39.6% confident that Charlize is pronounced as shahr-LEEZ, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHAHR-LEEZ, at 20.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.

shahr-LEEZ (2 syllables)
Verified
39.6% confidence
SH AA0 R L IY1 Z
SHAHR-LEEZ (2 syllables)
Verified
20.8% confidence
SH AA1 R L IY1 Z
CHAHR-leez (2 syllables)
18.9% confidence
CH AA1 R L IY0 Z
SHAHR-leez (2 syllables)
9.4% confidence
SH AA1 R L IY0 Z
SHAHR-laiz (2 syllables)
7.5% confidence
SH AA1 R L AY0 Z
CHAHR-laiz (2 syllables)
3.8% confidence
CH AA1 R L AY0 Z

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like SH AA0 R L IY1 Z) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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