Charla
Charla was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 8,026 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,750 Americans named Charla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 46 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Charla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Charla mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Charla is “a female given name, modern feminine form of Charles.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Charla?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,670, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
219 babies in 1969, the peak
Charla peaked in 1969, when 219 girls were given it, #670 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #15,670 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,833 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,604 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,171 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,614 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,990 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,004 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,039 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,680 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,223 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 8 | #12,451 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,615 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,703 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,865 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,820 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,144 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,638 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,301 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,009 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,829 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,508 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,403 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,011 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,703 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,154 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,145 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,436 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,098 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,845 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 49 | #2,537 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,041 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 70 | #1,974 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 74 | #1,891 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 94 | #1,520 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 71 | #1,767 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 77 | #1,609 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 101 | #1,315 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 96 | #1,360 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 107 | #1,218 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 100 | #1,253 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 116 | #1,181 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 124 | #1,117 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 153 | #966 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 143 | #995 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 143 | #969 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 200 | #759 | 0.13 |
| 1976 | 191 | #755 | 0.13 |
| 1975 | 132 | #952 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 156 | #843 | 0.11 |
| 1973 | 162 | #809 | 0.11 |
| 1972 | 168 | #804 | 0.11 |
| 1971 | 193 | #758 | 0.12 |
| 1970 | 210 | #719 | 0.12 |
| 1969 | 219 | #670 | 0.13 |
| 1968 | 211 | #665 | 0.13 |
| 1967 | 189 | #710 | 0.11 |
| 1966 | 202 | #687 | 0.12 |
| 1965 | 165 | #772 | 0.09 |
| 1964 | 177 | #776 | 0.09 |
| 1963 | 186 | #755 | 0.10 |
| 1962 | 191 | #748 | 0.10 |
| 1961 | 170 | #802 | 0.08 |
| 1960 | 159 | #827 | 0.08 |
| 1959 | 164 | #796 | 0.08 |
| 1958 | 150 | #828 | 0.07 |
| 1957 | 165 | #783 | 0.08 |
| 1956 | 190 | #694 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 180 | #701 | 0.09 |
| 1954 | 145 | #777 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 134 | #794 | 0.07 |
| 1952 | 129 | #794 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 141 | #736 | 0.08 |
| 1950 | 124 | #776 | 0.07 |
| 1949 | 120 | #786 | 0.07 |
| 1948 | 100 | #870 | 0.06 |
| 1947 | 117 | #807 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 96 | #843 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 122 | #669 | 0.09 |
| 1944 | 120 | #682 | 0.09 |
| 1943 | 54 | #1,090 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 61 | #999 | 0.05 |
| 1941 | 37 | #1,244 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 37 | #1,204 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 39 | #1,165 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 27 | #1,448 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,642 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 24 | #1,509 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,321 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,200 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,175 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,852 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,954 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,877 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,177 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,474 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,594 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,940 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,722 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,066 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,191 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,567 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,477 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,939 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,180 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Charla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Charla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 104 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Charla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Charla, and how old are they?
6,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 8,026 Americans ever recorded as Charla. The median Charla alive today is 57 years old; half are between 46 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 6,653 people named Charla (6,643 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,097 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 276 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,240 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,630 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,190 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 328 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 94 |
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).
Where are babies named Charla born?
The states with the most babies named Charla are Texas, California and Ohio, with 45% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,092 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| California | 586 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 361 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Oklahoma | 325 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Missouri | 287 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 262 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 191 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Kansas | 160 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Kentucky | 126 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Colorado | 119 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Charla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Charla is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1917 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Charla with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 44,672 babies since 1880, Charla is the third most given (18% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,442 babies recorded by SSA was a Charla (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Charla
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 Charla and names like it
- Compare Charla and CharleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sCharla peaked in 1969.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Charla since 1910.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Charla.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Charla alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.