Charle — boys' name

What the Data Says About Charle

The Social Security Administration has registered 929 babies named Charle between 1883 and 2010, spanning 128 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Charle currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2010. The name reached its historical peak in 1962, when 27 babies received it in a single year. Charle is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 132 additional births since 1944.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Charle performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 186 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Charle shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Charle in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Charle in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 929 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.