Charlyne
Charlyne was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 1,132 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Charlyne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Charlyne mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Charlyne is “a female given name, variant of Charlene.”
/t͡ʃɑɹˈlin/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Charlyne?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,113, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1946, the peak
Charlyne peaked in 1946, when 34 girls were given it, #1,511 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #17,113 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,095 | 2.8 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,678 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,520 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,051 | 5.0 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,911 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,741 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,467 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,659 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,158 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 6 | #10,589 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,601 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,309 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,976 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,674 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,530 | 4.8 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,987 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,117 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,142 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,615 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,468 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,580 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,795 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,051 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,210 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,872 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,887 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,664 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,071 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,077 | 8.8 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,809 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,157 | 14.9 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,797 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,458 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,246 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,511 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,513 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,343 | 11.3 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,755 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,605 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,930 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,025 | 13.3 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,358 | 10.5 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,968 | 14.0 |
| 1948 | 29 | #1,748 | 17.1 |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,724 | 17.5 |
| 1946 | 34 | #1,511 | 21.6 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,834 | 16.1 |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,615 | 19.6 |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,560 | 20.8 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,813 | 16.3 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,656 | 19.0 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,590 | 9.6 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,221 | 12.8 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,882 | 16.3 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,796 | 17.9 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,812 | 17.3 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,556 | 21.9 |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,523 | 23.0 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,560 | 22.8 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,762 | 18.7 |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,696 | 19.7 |
| 1930 | 23 | #1,669 | 20.4 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,840 | 17.9 |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,598 | 22.5 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,945 | 16.8 |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,085 | 15.2 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,041 | 15.6 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,328 | 12.8 |
| 1923 | 18 | #2,098 | 14.9 |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,128 | 15.0 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,395 | 12.2 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,184 | 14.2 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,277 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,850 | 9.5 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,215 | 13.9 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,393 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,726 | 10.2 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,709 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Charlyne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Charlyne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Charlyne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Charlyne, and how old are they?
An estimated 560 Americans named Charlyne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (49% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 55 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 722 people named Charlyne (722 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 668 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
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 144,328 babies since 1880, Charlyne is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 105 babies recorded by SSA was a Charlyne (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 Charlyne
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 Charlyne and names like it
- Compare Charlyne and CharleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sCharlyne peaked in 1946.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Charlyne since 1910.
- The top names of 1946The year the most babies were named Charlyne.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Charlyne alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.