Chari
Chari was last recorded in 2020, when 9 babies were given it; 1,202 Americans have been recorded with it between 1941 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,060 Americans named Chari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 43 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chari?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,437, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
41 babies in 1960, the peak
Chari peaked in 1960, when 41 girls were given it, #1,765 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 9 | #10,437 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,031 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,871 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,107 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,424 | 2.8 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,673 | 2.6 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,941 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,823 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,491 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,735 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 8 | #9,739 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,695 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,167 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,766 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,477 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,330 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,534 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,364 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,495 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,289 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 31 | #2,952 | 18.0 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,929 | 17.8 |
| 1983 | 19 | #3,970 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,780 | 19.5 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,305 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,871 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,257 | 15.6 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,617 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,501 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,833 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,890 | 17.1 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,331 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,764 | 17.1 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,829 | 15.8 |
| 1971 | 38 | #2,142 | 22.8 |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,273 | 19.4 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,405 | 17.2 |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,306 | 17.1 |
| 1967 | 30 | #2,173 | 18.2 |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,309 | 16.0 |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,858 | 21.5 |
| 1964 | 35 | #2,017 | 18.5 |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,432 | 13.0 |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,894 | 18.8 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,417 | 12.4 |
| 1960 | 41 | #1,765 | 20.3 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,882 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,028 | 14.9 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,285 | 11.7 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,258 | 12.0 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,911 | 15.9 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,601 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,707 | 8.5 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,942 | 14.6 |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,187 | 11.7 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,557 | 9.3 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,936 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,252 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,079 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,896 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,172 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,740 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,789 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,010 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,506 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chari has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chari, and how old are they?
1,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 1,202 Americans ever recorded as Chari. The median Chari alive today is 55 years old; half are between 43 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 1,115 people named Chari (1,089 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,095 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 19 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 341 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 381 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 266 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 26 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 28 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 3,602 babies since 1880, Chari is the most given (33% 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 Chari
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 Chari and names like it
- Compare Chari and CharaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sChari peaked in 1960.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chari since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Chari.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Chari alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.