How popular is “Charlene” in the USA?

Number of people named “Charlene” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Charlene” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Charlene” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Charlene” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Charlene” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Charlene” by birth year

This chart shows how “Charlene” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1888	5	0.000016696	5		100%
1892	6	0.000017944	6		100%
1895	7	0.000019942	7		100%
1896	9	0.000025176	9		100%
1898	12	0.000031458	12		100%
1899	6	0.000017687	6		100%
1900	6	0.000013326	6		100%
1901	6	0.00001735	6		100%
1902	8	0.000020686	8		100%
1903	6	0.00001574	6		100%
1904	13	0.000032219	13		100%
1905	13	0.000030666	13		100%
1906	11	0.000025674	11		100%
1907	19	0.000040826	19		100%
1908	29	0.000059347	29		100%
1909	28	0.000054771	28		100%
1910	31	0.000052479	31		100%
1911	40	0.000062085	40		100%
1912	61	0.000061737	61		100%
1913	75	0.000065957	75		100%
1914	89	0.000062838	89		100%
1915	133	0.000072581	133		100%
1916	169	0.000087365	169		100%
1917	203	0.000101159	203		100%
1918	248	0.000114227	248		100%
1919	233	0.000110414	233		100%
1920	294	0.000129937	294		100%
1921	318	0.000136217	318		100%
1922	332	0.000145032	332		100%
1923	390	0.000169383	390		100%
1924	449	0.000188528	449		100%
1925	587	0.000251575	587		100%
1926	581	0.000253059	581		100%
1927	833	0.000359151	833		100%
1928	854	0.000377719	854		100%
1929	932	0.000425151	932		100%
1930	987	0.000443937	987		100%
1931	1008	0.000478999	1008		100%
1932	1123	0.000531902	1123		100%
1933	1180	0.000590163	1174	6	99%
1934	1353	0.000651478	1344	9	99%
1935	1405	0.000672281	1395	10	99%
1936	1491	0.000717663	1482	9	99%
1937	1591	0.000746713	1580	11	99%
1938	1678	0.000758393	1673	5	99%
1939	1711	0.000776512	1705	6	99%
1940	1692	0.000734794	1686	6	99%
1941	2070	0.000849605	2060	10	99%
1942	2324	0.000850716	2319	5	100%
1943	2362	0.000836829	2354	8	99%
1944	2443	0.000908152	2433	10	99%
1945	2399	0.00090429	2388	11	99%
1946	3049	0.000954212	3037	12	99%
1947	3477	0.000965211	3477		100%
1948	3487	0.001009988	3487		100%
1949	3547	0.001017856	3541	6	100%
1950	3448	0.000984199	3448		100%
1951	3448	0.000936005	3441	7	100%
1952	3557	0.000936544	3546	11	99%
1953	3512	0.000911345	3504	8	100%
1954	3247	0.000815684	3242	5	100%
1955	3314	0.000825388	3301	13	99%
1956	3285	0.000796743	3275	10	99%
1957	3164	0.000752949	3150	14	99%
1958	3071	0.000742881	3066	5	100%
1959	2752	0.000661858	2745	7	99%
1960	2907	0.000699839	2894	13	99%
1961	2842	0.000686092	2832	10	99%
1962	2575	0.000638107	2564	11	99%
1963	2738	0.000691729	2728	10	99%
1964	2821	0.00072564	2807	14	99%
1965	2600	0.000717153	2590	10	99%
1966	2197	0.000632111	2187	10	99%
1967	2085	0.000614157	2077	8	99%
1968	1947	0.000576306	1947		100%
1969	2005	0.000576925	1997	8	99%
1970	1990	0.000551779	1983	7	99%
1971	1740	0.000506941	1733	7	99%
1972	1468	0.000467071	1462	6	99%
1973	1213	0.00040207	1206	7	99%
1974	1075	0.000353619	1070	5	99%
1975	1074	0.000355701	1074		100%
1976	1087	0.000358237	1080	7	99%
1977	1073	0.000337794	1068	5	99%
1978	943	0.000297114	937	6	99%
1979	934	0.000280733	934		100%
1980	1070	0.00031064	1070		100%
1981	1003	0.000289937	1003		100%
1982	1065	0.000303595	1060	5	99%
1983	961	0.000277478	961		100%
1984	942	0.00027001	936	6	99%
1985	902	0.000252724	902		100%
1986	796	0.000223779	785	11	97%
1987	804	0.000222986	804		100%
1988	714	0.000193232	707	7	98%
1989	710	0.000184682	710		100%
1990	664	0.000167996	659	5	98%
1991	531	0.000136319	531		100%
1992	473	0.000123136	473		100%
1993	427	0.000113254	427		100%
1994	406	0.000109209	406		100%
1995	310	0.00008465	310		100%
1996	291	0.000079787	291		100%
1997	307	0.000084672	307		100%
1998	252	0.000068512	252		100%
1999	208	0.00005631	208		100%
2000	191	0.00005053	191		100%
2001	168	0.000044879	168		100%
2002	170	0.000045475	170		100%
2003	165	0.000043395	165		100%
2004	202	0.000052867	202		100%
2005	178	0.000046296	178		100%
2006	190	0.000048026	190		100%
2007	182	0.000045526	182		100%
2008	153	0.000038925	153		100%
2009	142	0.000037171	142		100%
2010	136	0.000036799	136		100%
2011	134	0.000036634	134		100%
2012	134	0.000036638	134		100%
2013	116	0.000031819	116		100%
2014	159	0.000042899	159		100%
2015	146	0.00003945	146		100%
2016	147	0.000040069	147		100%
2017	153	0.000042783	153		100%
2018	112	0.000031855	112		100%
2019	111	0.00003198	111		100%
2020	119	0.000035623	119		100%
2021	114	0.000033649	114		100%
2022	111	0.00003281	111		100%
2023	102	0.000030805	102		100%
2024	115	0.00003455	115		100%

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