Charlayne
Charlayne was last recorded in 1987, when 5 babies were given it; 198 Americans have been recorded with it between 1939 and 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Charlayne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Charlayne mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Charlayne is “a female given name, variant of Charlene.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Charlayne?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,600, in 1987; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
66 babies in 1961, the peak
Charlayne peaked in 1961, when 66 girls were given it, #1,376 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 | #11,600 | 2.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,672 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,446 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,739 | 4.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,149 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,659 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,836 | 10.6 |
| 1963 | 29 | #2,215 | 15.0 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,308 | 7.6 |
| 1961 | 66 | #1,376 | 32.7 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 7 | #4,296 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,172 | 6.5 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,052 | 4.5 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,192 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,349 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Charlayne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Charlayne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Charlayne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Charlayne, and how old are they?
An estimated 163 Americans named Charlayne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 62 and 65. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 257 people named Charlayne (256 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 174 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 142,618 babies since 1880, Charlayne is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 105 babies recorded by SSA was a Charlayne (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 Charlayne
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1930-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Deneen | 3,610 |
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 Charlayne and names like it
- Compare Charlayne and CharleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sCharlayne peaked in 1961.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Charlayne since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Charlayne.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Charlayne alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.