Charle
Charle was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 1,061 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Charle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Charle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,558, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1962, the peak
Charle peaked in 1962, when 27 boys were given it, #1,520 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #16,786 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,007 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 5 | #12,558 | |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,865 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,912 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,861 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,920 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,492 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,068 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 8 | #6,588 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | under 5 | 5 | #9,066 | |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,062 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 7 | #6,930 | |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,026 | 7 | #6,768 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,465 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,412 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 11 | #4,558 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 7 | #5,851 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,039 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,199 | 9 | #4,519 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 5 | #6,682 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,673 | 8 | #4,618 |
| 1982 | under 5 | 9 | #4,281 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 8 | #4,574 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #5,626 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,447 | 10 | #3,844 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 8 | #4,216 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,858 | 9 | #3,887 |
| 1976 | under 5 | 13 | #2,967 | |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,140 | 12 | #3,098 |
| 1974 | under 5 | 18 | #2,290 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 12 | #2,876 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 12 | #2,836 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 20 | #2,065 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 19 | #2,068 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 19 | #1,918 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 15 | #2,119 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 15 | #2,042 | |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,339 | 14 | #2,145 |
| 1965 | under 5 | 22 | #1,676 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 20 | #1,798 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 13 | #2,318 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 27 | #1,520 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 17 | #2,003 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 24 | #1,662 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 19 | #1,870 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 19 | #1,851 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 21 | #1,760 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 12 | #2,380 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 14 | #2,154 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 18 | #1,838 | |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,778 | 17 | #1,908 |
| 1952 | under 5 | 16 | #1,948 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 15 | #1,986 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 13 | #2,125 | |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,341 | 9 | #2,637 |
| 1948 | under 5 | 9 | #2,636 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 16 | #1,931 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 7 | #2,951 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 6 | #3,038 | |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,128 | 12 | #2,096 |
| 1943 | under 5 | 12 | #2,191 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 8 | #2,744 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 11 | #2,227 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 10 | #2,348 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 7 | #2,873 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 5 | #3,601 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 12 | #2,101 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 14 | #1,884 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 8 | #2,751 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 6 | #3,341 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 7 | #3,054 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 9 | #2,668 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 12 | #2,226 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 16 | #1,903 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 7 | #3,279 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 15 | #2,062 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 7 | #3,504 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 10 | #2,749 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 13 | #2,330 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 10 | #2,843 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 5 | #4,334 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 12 | #2,511 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 7 | #3,582 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 5 | #4,400 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 7 | #3,456 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 7 | #3,421 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 11 | #2,450 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 5 | #3,917 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 13 | #1,797 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 6 | #2,545 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 5 | #2,612 | |
| 1907 | under 5 | 5 | #1,371 | |
| 1883 | under 5 | 5 | #921 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Charle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,061 Americans recorded as Charle, 12% are girls and 88% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Charle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Charle, and how old are they?
An estimated 645 Americans named Charle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 44 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,570 people named Charle (273 women and girls, 1,297 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 712 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Charle rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 261,021 babies since 1880, Charle is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 5,063 babies recorded by SSA was a Charle (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 Charle
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 Charle and names like it
- Compare Charle and CharlieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sCharle peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Charle since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Charle.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Charle alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.