girls:
165 births since 1977
#5551 (3rd percentile)
boys:
9.8k births since 1974
#1176 (74th percentile)
overall:
10k births since 1974
#2670 (65th percentile)
The name Chaz is the #2,670 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,004 recorded births since 1974. This represents the 65.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 65.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,176 (74.4% percentile) for all time with 9,839 births since 1974. For girls, it ranks #5,551 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 165 births since 1977.
Chaz first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1974 (1974 for boys and 1977 for girls).
The name Chaz has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Chaz reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 50.9% percentile (ranked #357) with 263 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 263 births per million (ranked 50.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1992, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Chaz ranks #877 for boys (3.7% percentile) with 21 births per million, which is 8.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Chaz reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #811) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chaz".
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