Charon — unisex name

What the Data Says About Charon

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,001 babies named Charon between 1937 and 2008, spanning 72 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Charon currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1973, when 29 babies received it in a single year. Charon is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 216 additional births since 1970.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Charon performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 220 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Charon shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 34 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Charon in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Charon 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 1,001 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.