Charese
Charese was last recorded in 2003, when 5 babies were given it; 439 Americans have been recorded with it between 1956 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Charese by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Charese?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,252, in 2003; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1982, the peak
Charese peaked in 1982, when 22 girls were given it, #3,665 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #16,252 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,822 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,986 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,415 | 5.1 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,125 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,200 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,027 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,166 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,604 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,037 | 6.4 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 13 | #6,529 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,079 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,335 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,690 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,222 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,114 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,895 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,711 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,665 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,882 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,173 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,137 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,262 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,257 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,646 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,626 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,261 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,165 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,535 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,386 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,742 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,739 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,209 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,118 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,424 | 8.3 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,905 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,895 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,372 | 3.6 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,229 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,892 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Charese a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Charese has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Charese: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Charese, and how old are they?
An estimated 416 Americans named Charese and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 37 and 53. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 387 people named Charese (386 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 423 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 8,610 babies since 1880, Charese is the third most given (5.1% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Charese
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Charese and names like it
- Compare Charese and CharisseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCharese peaked in 1982.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Charese.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Charese alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.