Charlyn
Charlyn was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,398 among girls’ names; 1,829 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,410 Americans named Charlyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 38 and 71.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Charlyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Charlyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Charlyn is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Charlyn?
#15,398 among girls’ names, 2025
Charlyn fell from #12,066 in 2015 to #15,398 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.1 per million.
42 babies in 1947, the peak
Charlyn peaked in 1947, when 42 girls were given it, #1,439 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,398 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,415 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,609 | 3.1 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,878 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,010 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,066 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,575 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,115 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,786 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,222 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 9 | #11,452 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,672 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,786 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,145 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,412 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,295 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,825 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,666 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,637 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,882 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,293 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,332 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,442 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,224 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,791 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,318 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,954 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,802 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,084 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,307 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,596 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,214 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,031 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,006 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,212 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,637 | 13.4 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,338 | 14.8 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,194 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,045 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,154 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,231 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,068 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,114 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,694 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,016 | 16.4 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,526 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,579 | 12.3 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,923 | 15.8 |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,915 | 15.1 |
| 1971 | 31 | #2,437 | 18.6 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,717 | 14.9 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,713 | 14.2 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,550 | 14.6 |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,501 | 14.5 |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,768 | 11.8 |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,413 | 14.2 |
| 1964 | 25 | #2,487 | 13.2 |
| 1963 | 29 | #2,216 | 15.0 |
| 1962 | 34 | #1,995 | 17.3 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,202 | 14.4 |
| 1960 | 31 | #2,064 | 15.3 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,770 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,512 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,072 | 13.7 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,932 | 15.4 |
| 1955 | 37 | #1,696 | 18.9 |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,705 | 18.5 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,877 | 15.4 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,645 | 18.9 |
| 1951 | 35 | #1,614 | 19.4 |
| 1950 | 40 | #1,454 | 23.4 |
| 1949 | 39 | #1,469 | 22.8 |
| 1948 | 32 | #1,648 | 18.8 |
| 1947 | 42 | #1,439 | 23.7 |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,420 | 24.2 |
| 1945 | 28 | #1,549 | 21.4 |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,405 | 24.9 |
| 1943 | 18 | #2,086 | 12.9 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,128 | 12.6 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,960 | 14.9 |
| 1940 | 28 | #1,445 | 24.5 |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,552 | 21.9 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,244 | 12.7 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,214 | 13.2 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,422 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,016 | 15.3 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,204 | 13.4 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,150 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,318 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,448 | 11.3 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,439 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,756 | 9.9 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,203 | 13.9 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,891 | 9.2 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,089 | 5.8 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,548 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,079 | 4.1 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,780 | 6.5 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,391 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Charlyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Charlyn 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 Charlyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Charlyn, and how old are they?
1,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 1,829 Americans ever recorded as Charlyn. The median Charlyn alive today is 55 years old; half are between 38 and 71.
The 2020 Census counted 1,717 people named Charlyn (1,701 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,506 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 104 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 466 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 337 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 269 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 165 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 72 |
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 11,444 babies since 1880, Charlyn is the second most given (16% 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 Charlyn
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 Charlyn and names like it
- Compare Charlyn and CharleenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sCharlyn peaked in 1947.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Charlyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Charlyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Charlyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.