Charlean
Charlean was last recorded in 1990, when 7 babies were given it; 1,289 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Charlean by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Charlean?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,399, in 1990; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1952, the peak
Charlean peaked in 1952, when 43 girls were given it, #1,470 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 7 | #10,399 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,472 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,200 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,177 | 4.2 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,509 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,875 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,448 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,047 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,859 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,262 | 7.5 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 5 | #9,288 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,578 | 12.3 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,772 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,557 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,706 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,265 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,481 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,528 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,870 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 11 | #3,992 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,163 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,923 | 10.0 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,313 | 14.0 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,941 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,851 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,657 | 10.4 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,405 | 11.4 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,392 | 11.4 |
| 1957 | 30 | #1,994 | 14.7 |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,108 | 13.4 |
| 1955 | 26 | #2,114 | 13.3 |
| 1954 | 34 | #1,775 | 17.5 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,023 | 13.8 |
| 1952 | 43 | #1,470 | 23.2 |
| 1951 | 37 | #1,558 | 20.5 |
| 1950 | 40 | #1,453 | 23.4 |
| 1949 | 30 | #1,740 | 17.5 |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,784 | 16.5 |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,760 | 16.9 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,870 | 15.3 |
| 1945 | 30 | #1,484 | 23.0 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,303 | 11.3 |
| 1943 | 33 | #1,442 | 23.7 |
| 1942 | 34 | #1,394 | 25.2 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,821 | 16.6 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,120 | 13.1 |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,649 | 20.1 |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,481 | 23.6 |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,587 | 21.6 |
| 1936 | 24 | #1,510 | 23.1 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,555 | 21.9 |
| 1934 | 22 | #1,610 | 21.1 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,614 | 21.8 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,257 | 13.1 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,447 | 11.3 |
| 1930 | 36 | #1,254 | 32.0 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,324 | 12.5 |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,552 | 23.4 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,575 | 10.9 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,490 | 11.8 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,968 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,836 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,163 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,633 | 10.8 |
| 1921 | 18 | #2,136 | 14.6 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,610 | 10.8 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,840 | 9.7 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,941 | 4.3 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,722 | 10.2 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,489 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,941 | 9.2 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,686 | 10.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Charlean a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Charlean has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Charlean: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Charlean, and how old are they?
An estimated 717 Americans named Charlean and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (56% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 61 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 626 people named Charlean (622 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 840 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Charlean born?
The states with the most babies named Charlean are Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Arkansas and Louisiana are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 272 | not ranked | 11.3× |
| Arkansas | 56 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Louisiana | 12 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Charlean is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Charlean is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1912 it was given 11.3 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 Charlean 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 11,529 babies since 1880, Charlean is the third most given (11% of them).
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 Charlean
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 Charlean and names like it
- Compare Charlean and CharleenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sCharlean peaked in 1952.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Charlean since 1910.
- The top names of 1952The year the most babies were named Charlean.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Charlean alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.