Charon
Charon is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 197329 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1937
- 1,217people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,001 girls have been named Charon in the United States since 1937, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1973, with 29 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 29 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1971, and the 1970s alone account for 22%.
Charon is used for both sexes: 18% of its bearers are boys (216), most of them born around 1990.
By decade
In 1973, its biggest year
Charon was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1973 were Jennifer, Amy, Michelle, Kimberly and Lisa. See all of 1973.
Names that rose and fell with Charon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rochellepeak 1969
- Charlettapeak 1968
- Andrapeak 1959
- Nickiepeak 1972
- Nickipeak 1972
- Janeanpeak 1962
- Deannapeak 1970
- Kareenpeak 1977
Other spellings in the data
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.