Charlea
Charlea was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,544 among girls’ names; 494 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Charlea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Charlea?
#13,544 among girls’ names, 2025
Charlea fell from #5,695 in 2015 to #13,544 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 3.7 per million.
24 babies in 2018, the peak
Charlea peaked in 2018, when 24 girls were given it, #5,343 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,544 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,754 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,142 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,834 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,583 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,123 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,219 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,343 | 14.1 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,863 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,228 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,695 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,059 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,059 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,900 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,772 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,281 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,534 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,063 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,913 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,919 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,282 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,352 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,601 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,334 | 4.5 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,666 | 6.1 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,616 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,554 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,790 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,058 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,823 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,585 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,677 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,764 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,398 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,855 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,588 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,040 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,754 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,319 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,415 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,722 | 3.9 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,171 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Charlea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Charlea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Charlea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Charlea, and how old are they?
An estimated 488 Americans named Charlea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 524 people named Charlea (425 women and girls, 99 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 429 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 44,733 babies since 1880, Charlea is the fifth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 1,442 babies (<1%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Charlea
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 Charlea and names like it
- Compare Charlea and CharleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCharlea peaked in 2018.
- Missouri’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Charlea since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Charlea.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Charlea alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.