Charle
Charle is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 922nd, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 196227 births
- Best rank
- #922in 1883
- Since 1883
- 1,061people given the name
The story in the numbers
929 boys have been named Charle in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 27 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 27 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1957, and the 1960s alone account for 20%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 132 girls have also been given it, 12% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Charle | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 54 | |
| 1920s | 91 | |
| 1930s | 96 | |
| 1940s | 100 | |
| 1950s | 164 | |
| 1960s | 186 | |
| 1970s | 133 | |
| 1980s | 63 | |
| 1990s | 27 | |
| 2010s | 5 |
In 1962, its biggest year
Charle was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1962 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1962.
Names that rose and fell with Charle
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Douglasspeak 1970
- Jamepeak 1957
- Jeromepeak 1954
- Curtisspeak 1959
- Daviepeak 1955
- Carltonpeak 1957
- Paulpeak 1957
- Curtispeak 1962
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.