Meaning not yet researched.
Charleston: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 48 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,042 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,042 in 2015; #3,261 in 2025. About 54% of babies named Charleston in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,261 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #1,042.
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Charleston: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 48 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,042 in 2015 · most girls in one year: 255 (2015).
In 2025, 48 US girls were named Charleston, making it the 3,261st most common girls’ name of the year, up 150 places from #3,411 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 46 girls named Charleston in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,042, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 255. For comparison, it was #1,042 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 41 US boys were named Charleston, making it the 3,003rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 204 places from #2,799 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 46 boys named Charleston in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,583, reached in 1984. The most boys given the name in a single year was 88, in 2015. For comparison, it was #1,745 in 2015 and #2,804 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Charleston in 96 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 3,813 US babies have been given the name, 34% of them girls and 66% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,430 babies named Charleston.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 773 US girls were named Charleston; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 156. In 2025 that was about 1 in 33,485 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Charlestine, Charlestyn and Charlesten 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Charlestine (128), Charlestyn (38), Charlesten (5).
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 Charleston in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #3,261 | 41 | #3,003 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,411 | 46 | #2,799 |
| 2023 | 46 | #3,436 | 29 | #3,811 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,702 | 44 | #2,880 |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,563 | 54 | #2,468 |
| 2020 | 64 | #2,636 | 58 | #2,327 |
| 2019 | 88 | #2,133 | 70 | #2,063 |
| 2018 | 94 | #2,064 | 58 | #2,305 |
| 2017 | 99 | #1,993 | 58 | #2,279 |
| 2016 | 156 | #1,473 | 65 | #2,137 |
| 2015 | 255 | #1,042 | 88 | #1,745 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,734 | 71 | #2,004 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,687 | 51 | #2,429 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,287 | 50 | #2,499 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,389 | 51 | #2,443 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,708 | 47 | #2,591 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,869 | 53 | #2,409 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,232 | 27 | #3,843 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,941 | 38 | #3,033 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,641 | 42 | #2,749 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,054 | 34 | #3,027 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,387 | 32 | #3,092 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,607 | 35 | #2,795 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,640 | 22 | #3,806 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,888 | 37 | #2,570 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,501 | 30 | #2,927 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,996 | 34 | #2,567 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,423 | 36 | #2,401 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,074 | 52 | #1,816 |
| 1996 | — | — | 31 | #2,490 |
| 1995 | — | — | 31 | #2,455 |
| 1994 | — | — | 26 | #2,780 |
| 1993 | — | — | 39 | #2,056 |
| 1992 | — | — | 40 | #1,984 |
| 1991 | — | — | 39 | #1,953 |
| 1990 | — | — | 46 | #1,733 |
| 1989 | — | — | 44 | #1,739 |
| 1988 | — | — | 45 | #1,594 |
| 1987 | — | — | 38 | #1,738 |
| 1986 | — | — | 30 | #1,964 |
| 1985 | — | — | 33 | #1,801 |
| 1984 | — | — | 38 | #1,583 |
| 1983 | — | — | 25 | #2,097 |
| 1982 | — | — | 29 | #1,899 |
| 1981 | — | — | 31 | #1,817 |
| 1980 | — | — | 23 | #2,227 |
| 1979 | — | — | 27 | #1,950 |
| 1978 | — | — | 25 | #1,972 |
| 1977 | — | — | 26 | #1,915 |
| 1976 | — | — | 17 | #2,522 |
| 1975 | — | — | 20 | #2,215 |
| 1974 | — | — | 27 | #1,756 |
| 1973 | — | — | 22 | #1,937 |
| 1972 | — | — | 13 | #2,679 |
| 1971 | — | — | 13 | #2,701 |
| 1970 | — | — | 12 | #2,755 |
| 1969 | — | — | 14 | #2,327 |
| 1968 | — | — | 12 | #2,463 |
| 1967 | — | — | 14 | #2,154 |
| 1966 | — | — | 14 | #2,147 |
| 1965 | — | — | 13 | #2,283 |
| 1964 | — | — | 11 | #2,561 |
| 1963 | — | — | 18 | #1,912 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,690 |
| 1961 | — | — | 12 | #2,431 |
| 1960 | — | — | 11 | #2,559 |
| 1959 | — | — | 14 | #2,214 |
| 1958 | — | — | 10 | #2,667 |
| 1957 | — | — | 10 | #2,666 |
| 1956 | — | — | 10 | #2,652 |
| 1955 | — | — | 16 | #1,982 |
| 1954 | — | — | 10 | #2,613 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,559 |
| 1951 | — | — | 11 | #2,390 |
| 1950 | — | — | 8 | #2,804 |
| 1949 | — | — | 8 | #2,826 |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,228 |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,276 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,578 |
| 1940 | — | — | 7 | #2,914 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,228 |
| 1935 | — | — | 6 | #3,320 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,332 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #3,860 |
| 1928 | — | — | 7 | #3,410 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #3,841 |
| 1925 | — | — | 8 | #3,190 |
| 1924 | — | — | 12 | #2,500 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,522 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #3,931 |
| 1921 | — | — | 9 | #3,021 |
| 1920 | — | — | 9 | #3,000 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #3,806 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #3,797 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,081 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,337 |
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).