Meaning not yet researched.
Charlene: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 99 in 2025. Its best rank was #100 in 1949.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #100 in 1949; #1,948 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Charlene in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,948 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1949, at #100.
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Charlene: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 99 girls in 2025. Peak: #100 in 1949 · most girls in one year: 3,546 (1952).
In 2025, 99 US girls were named Charlene, making it the 1,948th most common girls’ name of the year, down 195 places from #1,753 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 115 girls named Charlene in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #100, reached in 1949. The most girls given the name in a single year was 3,546, in 1952. For comparison, it was #1,533 in 2015 and #103 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Charlene in 132 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 5 babies. In all, 134,111 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 32,798 babies named Charlene.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,183 US girls were named Charlene; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 153. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,235 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Charlene ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #1,164 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Charleen (7,384 babies since 1880) and Charline (6,241 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Charlyn, Charlean and Charlynn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Charlyn (1,829), Charlean (1,289), Charlynn (791), Charlaine (395), Charlane (237), Charleene (205), Charlayne (198), Charliene (99), Charlen (80), Charlann (71), Charlanne (57), Charlin (37), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Charlene in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,164 | — |
| California | 18 | #1,331 | #1,213 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,074 | #1,556 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 99 | #1,948 | — | — |
| 2024 | 115 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 2023 | 102 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 2022 | 111 | #1,829 | — | — |
| 2021 | 114 | #1,780 | — | — |
| 2020 | 119 | #1,704 | — | — |
| 2019 | 111 | #1,834 | — | — |
| 2018 | 112 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 2017 | 153 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 2016 | 147 | #1,534 | — | — |
| 2015 | 146 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 2014 | 159 | #1,427 | — | — |
| 2013 | 116 | #1,766 | — | — |
| 2012 | 134 | #1,613 | — | — |
| 2011 | 134 | #1,612 | — | — |
| 2010 | 136 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 2009 | 142 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 2008 | 153 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 2007 | 182 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 2006 | 190 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 2005 | 178 | #1,262 | — | — |
| 2004 | 202 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 2003 | 165 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 2002 | 170 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 2001 | 168 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 2000 | 191 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 1999 | 208 | #990 | — | — |
| 1998 | 252 | #846 | — | — |
| 1997 | 307 | #702 | — | — |
| 1996 | 291 | #720 | — | — |
| 1995 | 310 | #686 | — | — |
| 1994 | 406 | #569 | — | — |
| 1993 | 427 | #558 | — | — |
| 1992 | 473 | #508 | — | — |
| 1991 | 531 | #460 | — | — |
| 1990 | 659 | #395 | 5 | #8,317 |
| 1989 | 710 | #361 | — | — |
| 1988 | 707 | #350 | 7 | #5,858 |
| 1987 | 804 | #304 | — | — |
| 1986 | 785 | #306 | 11 | #3,920 |
| 1985 | 902 | #277 | — | — |
| 1984 | 936 | #261 | 6 | #5,684 |
| 1983 | 961 | #244 | — | — |
| 1982 | 1,060 | #238 | 5 | #6,523 |
| 1981 | 1,003 | #248 | — | — |
| 1980 | 1,070 | #240 | — | — |
| 1979 | 935 | #258 | — | — |
| 1978 | 936 | #253 | 6 | #5,158 |
| 1977 | 1,068 | #234 | 5 | #5,982 |
| 1976 | 1,081 | #225 | 7 | #4,514 |
| 1975 | 1,073 | #226 | — | — |
| 1974 | 1,070 | #237 | 5 | #5,328 |
| 1973 | 1,206 | #211 | 7 | #4,134 |
| 1972 | 1,462 | #195 | 6 | #4,521 |
| 1971 | 1,733 | #178 | 7 | #4,033 |
| 1970 | 1,983 | #167 | 7 | #3,907 |
| 1969 | 1,996 | #163 | 8 | #3,356 |
| 1968 | 1,948 | #166 | — | — |
| 1967 | 2,076 | #160 | 8 | #3,030 |
| 1966 | 2,187 | #159 | 10 | #2,652 |
| 1965 | 2,590 | #142 | 10 | #2,643 |
| 1964 | 2,807 | #144 | 14 | #2,224 |
| 1963 | 2,729 | #149 | 10 | #2,698 |
| 1962 | 2,563 | #158 | 11 | #2,531 |
| 1961 | 2,834 | #150 | 10 | #2,740 |
| 1960 | 2,894 | #148 | 13 | #2,332 |
| 1959 | 2,746 | #153 | 7 | #3,327 |
| 1958 | 3,067 | #138 | 5 | #4,042 |
| 1957 | 3,149 | #136 | 14 | #2,201 |
| 1956 | 3,275 | #132 | 10 | #2,651 |
| 1955 | 3,301 | #130 | 13 | #2,230 |
| 1954 | 3,241 | #126 | 5 | #3,908 |
| 1953 | 3,504 | #113 | 8 | #2,945 |
| 1952 | 3,546 | #106 | 11 | #2,398 |
| 1951 | 3,441 | #103 | 7 | #3,111 |
| 1950 | 3,448 | #103 | — | — |
| 1949 | 3,541 | #100 | 6 | #3,363 |
| 1948 | 3,487 | #105 | — | — |
| 1947 | 3,477 | #105 | — | — |
| 1946 | 3,037 | #107 | 12 | #2,168 |
| 1945 | 2,388 | #114 | 11 | #2,150 |
| 1944 | 2,433 | #109 | 10 | #2,332 |
| 1943 | 2,354 | #121 | 8 | #2,765 |
| 1942 | 2,319 | #117 | 5 | #3,644 |
| 1941 | 2,060 | #125 | 10 | #2,367 |
| 1940 | 1,686 | #145 | 6 | #3,188 |
| 1939 | 1,704 | #139 | 6 | #3,169 |
| 1938 | 1,673 | #143 | 5 | #3,603 |
| 1937 | 1,581 | #141 | 11 | #2,221 |
| 1936 | 1,482 | #145 | 9 | #2,482 |
| 1935 | 1,395 | #146 | 10 | #2,413 |
| 1934 | 1,344 | #151 | 9 | #2,593 |
| 1933 | 1,174 | #156 | 6 | #3,331 |
| 1932 | 1,123 | #170 | — | — |
| 1931 | 1,008 | #179 | — | — |
| 1930 | 987 | #195 | — | — |
| 1929 | 932 | #200 | — | — |
| 1928 | 854 | #215 | — | — |
| 1927 | 833 | #221 | — | — |
| 1926 | 581 | #276 | — | — |
| 1925 | 587 | #274 | — | — |
| 1924 | 449 | #316 | — | — |
| 1923 | 390 | #329 | — | — |
| 1922 | 332 | #363 | — | — |
| 1921 | 318 | #378 | — | — |
| 1920 | 294 | #383 | — | — |
| 1919 | 233 | #429 | — | — |
| 1918 | 248 | #417 | — | — |
| 1917 | 203 | #452 | — | — |
| 1916 | 169 | #497 | — | — |
| 1915 | 133 | #556 | — | — |
| 1914 | 89 | #602 | — | — |
| 1913 | 75 | #596 | — | — |
| 1912 | 61 | #634 | — | — |
| 1911 | 40 | #688 | — | — |
| 1910 | 31 | #772 | — | — |
| 1909 | 28 | #764 | — | — |
| 1908 | 29 | #723 | — | — |
| 1907 | 19 | #876 | — | — |
| 1906 | 11 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 1905 | 13 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,631 | — | — |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,763 | — | — |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 1898 | 12 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,143 | — | — |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,323 | — | — |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,313 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).