Entry № 1921 · Afrikaans origin

Charlize Charlize — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shar-LEEZ /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Afrikaans
Meaning
"Free woman (Charlize Theron, first African Best Actress Oscar)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Afrikaans)

A name that means "free woman (charlize theron, first african best actress oscar)".

Charlize is the Afrikaans feminine of Charles — from the Old Germanic karl (free man). UN Messenger of Peace (2008). Naturalized US citizen (2007).

Free woman (Charlize Theron, first African Best Actress Oscar) — a Afrikaans name.

The name in its native script.

Charlize
Transliteration
Charlize
Pronunciation
/ ʃɑːrˈliːz /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Charlize stands.

Charlize does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Charlizes before her.

Real people
Charlize Theron
South African-American actress.
born 1975
In fiction
Charlize
Various film roles.

Names connected to Charlize.

The number behind Charlize.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Charlize reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.