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Charise

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Charise has been given to 2,154 babies in the U.S. since 1949. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1971, with 85 recorded.

Babies named Charise, 2014

1 in 412,000

Charise over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Charise: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Charise means

Charise is a given name.

The naming story behind Charise

Wikidata records Charise as a given name. The entity identifier is Q116740587, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,154 girls were recorded with the name Charise between 1949 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 85 in 1971; its best national rank was #1,293 in 1971.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Charise?

Charise had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 412,000
9 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 198,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
285,486 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Charise sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 285,486 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charise. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Charises were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Charise was born before 1977 — so the typical Charise is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
30.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,145
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 30.8% of all recorded uses (664).

Is Charise 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1971 (85)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,293
1971

Spellings of Charise

Charise is not the most common spelling — Charlie is, with 15.1% against Charise's 0.81%.

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 Charise is used

Across 1910–2025, Charise was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 94,693 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 100,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Maryland1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Charise has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Charise around the world

Where Charise 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 & Wales
    1997–1997
    #2,738
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    1964–1989
    #483
    in 1989

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Charise

People whose public names include Charise, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Charise in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Charise. Linked forms have their own page here.

Charisse

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Charise by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,293
1971
Peak year
1971
85 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
2,154
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Charise

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Charise

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Charise, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Charise

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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