Charleston — #2786 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Charleston

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,467 babies named Charleston between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Charleston currently holds the #2786 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 88 babies received it in a single year. Charleston is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,257 additional births since 1997.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Charleston performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 609 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Charleston shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 226 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Louisiana and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Charleston in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Charleston 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 2,467 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.