Charra
Charra was last recorded in 1983, when 5 babies were given it; 51 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Charra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Charra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,531, in 1983; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1973, the peak
Charra peaked in 1973, when 9 girls were given it, #5,644 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 5 | #10,531 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,371 | 4.1 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,419 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,991 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,622 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,146 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,644 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,519 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Charra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Charra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 8 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Charra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Charra, and how old are they?
An estimated 48 Americans named Charra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 117 people named Charra (116 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 49 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times 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).
How common is the spelling Charra?
Charra is a less common spelling of Chara: SSA has recorded 51 Charra and 1,012 Chara since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 3,588 babies since 1880, Charra is the eighth most given (1.4% 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 Charra
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 Charra and names like it
- Compare Charra and CharaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCharra peaked in 1973.
- The top names of 1973The year the most babies were named Charra.
- Names starting with CMost given first.