Charbel
#3,324 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Charbel has been given to 701 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #3,324 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 60 recorded.
Babies named Charbel, 2025
1 in 94,700
Charbel over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Charbel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 94,700
- 35 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 48,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,324
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 65,655 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Charbel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charbel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Charbels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Charbel was born before 2016 — so the typical Charbel is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 49.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 701
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 49.4% of all recorded uses (346).
Is Charbel rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +769
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +178
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −162
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.97×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 58.3%
- Peak was 2019 (60)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.9% average annual change
Spellings of Charbel
Charbel is not the most common spelling — Charles is, with 98.8% against Charbel's 0.03%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Charbel is used
Across 2016–2025, Charbel was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 33,972 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Michigan1 in 8,333
- 2Massachusetts1 in 14,286
- 3California1 in 20,000
- 4Illinois1 in 33,333
- 5Florida1 in 50,000
- 6Arizona1 in 100,000
- 7New York1 in 100,000
- 8Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Charbel around the world
Where Charbel ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1998–2020#4,608in 2020
- France1980–2025#2,306in 2025
- Canada1992–2024#1,817in 2024
- South Australia1971–2012#514in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Charbel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Charbel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Charbel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.