girls:
5.5k births since 1998
#2243 (61st percentile)
overall:
5.5k births since 1998
#3657 (53rd percentile)
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".
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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.
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