Girls' name · since 1943
Charlita
Charlita has 433 recorded births since 1943 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1985 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #12,881 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 433
- born since 1943
- 1970s
- peak decade
Charlita is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 433 have been recorded since 1943.
Charlita has 433 recorded births among girls since 1943, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1943 to 1994.
- #12,881 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 433 born since 1943
- 1970s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Charlita ranks #12,881 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 433 born since 1943, peaking in the 1970s.
- #12,881 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 433
- born since 1943
- 1970s
- peak decade
Charlita's 433 recorded births place it above 82.17% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Charlita's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Charlita splits its recorded history at 1972: 55% of all births land in the more recent half, 45% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1952 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1985 peak of 19 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Charlita popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1943–1994
- Peak year (1985)
- 19
- Annual births at peak, across 52 years of records
Charlita by decade
1970s is the heaviest window (137 births, 32% of the file).
1970s was Charlita's strongest decade.
137 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 32% of all-time use.
Charlita births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1940s 15
1940s
15 births
- 1950s
1950s
58 births
- 1960s
1960s
98 births
- 1970s
1970s
137 births
- 1980s
1980s
106 births
- 1990s 19
1990s
19 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 137 births (32% of all-time use).
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- Charlita's decade-level peak was the 1970s (137 total births); usage has since declined to 19 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Charlita: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1985)
Similar record span (~51 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1943–1994 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Charlita draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.