Charls
Charls was last recorded in 1987, when 10 babies were given it; 722 Americans have been recorded with it between 1886 and 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Charls by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Charls?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,288, in 1987; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1932, the peak
Charls peaked in 1932, when 24 boys were given it, #1,435 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 10 | #4,288 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,047 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,832 | 6.0 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,674 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,704 | 4.5 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,012 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,035 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,816 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,687 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,127 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 8 | #3,134 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,559 | 5.2 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,858 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,652 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,556 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,182 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,909 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,690 | 4.8 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,070 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,067 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,467 | 5.7 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,178 | 7.1 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,168 | 7.4 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,020 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,210 | 8.1 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,429 | 7.0 |
| 1942 | 14 | #1,960 | 10.1 |
| 1941 | 14 | #1,920 | 11.4 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,639 | 15.5 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,481 | 8.1 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,001 | 11.7 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,222 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 15 | #1,815 | 14.5 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,045 | 12.5 |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,391 | 23.2 |
| 1933 | 16 | #1,781 | 16.1 |
| 1932 | 24 | #1,435 | 23.0 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,706 | 17.3 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,564 | 20.0 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,684 | 18.6 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,572 | 20.8 |
| 1927 | 17 | #1,968 | 15.1 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,734 | 18.0 |
| 1925 | 17 | #1,944 | 15.2 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,252 | 12.4 |
| 1923 | 17 | #1,955 | 15.5 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,157 | 13.8 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,399 | 11.8 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,258 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,074 | 15.3 |
| 1918 | 17 | #1,915 | 16.8 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,452 | 11.9 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,578 | 11.2 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,332 | 13.0 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,502 | 26.0 |
| 1913 | 10 | #1,826 | 19.5 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,637 | 23.3 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,189 | 39.9 |
| 1892 | 6 | #976 | 49.2 |
| 1886 | 6 | #857 | 54.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Charls a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Charls has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Charls: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Charls, and how old are they?
An estimated 187 Americans named Charls and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 60 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 367 people named Charls (9 women and girls, 358 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 248 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,448,296 babies since 1880, Charls is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 5,908 babies recorded by SSA was a Charls (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 Charls
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 Charls and names like it
- Compare Charls and CharlesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sCharls peaked in 1932.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Charls since 1910.
- The top names of 1932The year the most babies were named Charls.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Charls alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.