Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Chazz isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Chazz through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,350
- 1,321 boys · 29 girls
- Most popular year
- 1996
- 96 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,387 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −59%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,387 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 91 in 1996. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,145 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Chazz
- Chazz PalminteriAmerican actorborn 1952
- Chazz WitherspoonAmerican boxerborn 1981
- Chazz YoungChoreographer, dancer, actorborn 1932
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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