Charlena
Charlena was last recorded in 2015, when 6 babies were given it; 1,809 Americans have been recorded with it between 1903 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,350 Americans named Charlena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 40 and 64.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Charlena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Charlena mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Charlena 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 Charlena?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,883, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
46 babies in 1978, the peak
Charlena peaked in 1978, when 46 girls were given it, #2,059 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #14,883 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,357 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,087 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,783 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,564 | 2.8 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,992 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,651 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,047 | 4.3 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,517 | 4.4 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,275 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 10 | #9,292 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,555 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,631 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,157 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,223 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,604 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,743 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,003 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,302 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,521 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,894 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,662 | 22.8 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,602 | 23.0 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,348 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 31 | #2,985 | 18.1 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,532 | 13.9 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,522 | 22.0 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,726 | 19.2 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,591 | 21.3 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,153 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,335 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,938 | 18.1 |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,059 | 30.0 |
| 1977 | 43 | #2,167 | 28.0 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,014 | 16.4 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,070 | 15.8 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,692 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,695 | 17.8 |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,913 | 15.1 |
| 1971 | 37 | #2,180 | 22.2 |
| 1970 | 32 | #2,361 | 18.3 |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,461 | 16.6 |
| 1968 | 32 | #2,132 | 19.5 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,713 | 12.7 |
| 1966 | 29 | #2,196 | 17.1 |
| 1965 | 33 | #2,035 | 18.7 |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,254 | 15.3 |
| 1963 | 35 | #1,984 | 18.2 |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,270 | 14.2 |
| 1961 | 31 | #2,121 | 15.4 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,828 | 9.4 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,883 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 26 | #2,216 | 12.9 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,508 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,259 | 12.0 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,482 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,792 | 8.2 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,297 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,507 | 9.7 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,490 | 9.4 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,196 | 11.7 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,221 | 11.7 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,337 | 10.6 |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,954 | 14.1 |
| 1946 | 17 | #2,327 | 10.8 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,833 | 16.1 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,922 | 15.1 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,000 | 13.6 |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,228 | 11.8 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,032 | 14.1 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,254 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,182 | 7.3 |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,035 | 14.5 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,764 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,401 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,322 | 12.4 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,304 | 12.4 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,713 | 9.9 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,517 | 11.2 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,790 | 9.4 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,878 | 8.9 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,178 | 8.1 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,977 | 8.7 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,596 | 6.7 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,270 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,504 | 11.5 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,540 | 11.2 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,756 | 9.9 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,508 | 11.7 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,718 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,140 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,664 | 10.6 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,281 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,917 | 9.2 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,067 | 8.6 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,725 | 10.2 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,291 | 13.1 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,263 | 14.4 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,630 | 22.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Charlena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Charlena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 99 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Charlena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Charlena, and how old are they?
1,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 1,809 Americans ever recorded as Charlena. The median Charlena alive today is 51 years old; half are between 40 and 64.
The 2020 Census counted 1,282 people named Charlena (1,280 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,441 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 78 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 317 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 444 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 395 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 18 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 143,990 babies since 1880, Charlena is the third most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 105 babies recorded by SSA was a Charlena (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 Charlena
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 Charlena and names like it
- Compare Charlena and CharleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCharlena peaked in 1978.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Charlena since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Charlena.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Charlena alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.