Charito

Girls' name

Diminutive of Charo

Charito has been given to 43 babies in the U.S. since 1961. 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 1980, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Charito, 1980

1 in 431,000

Charito over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Charito: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Charo

Spanish

What Charito means

Charito is a diminutive of Charo.

Origin, language, and formation

Charito is used in Cebuano. Its origins include Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 43 girls were recorded with the name Charito between 1961 and 1980. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1980; its best national rank was #6,658 in 1965.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Charito?

Charito had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1980, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1980: 1 in 431,000; 8 of 3,444,198 births
Among girls only: 1 in 208,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1980: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 298,418 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Charito 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 1980 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 298,418 children born in 1980 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charito. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Charitos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Charito was born before 1972 — so the typical Charito is around 53 today.

Median birth year: 1972; About 53 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 44.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 43; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 44.2% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Charito 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1980 (8)
Years since peak: 45; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #6,658; 1965

Spellings of Charito

Charito is not the most common spelling — Charity is, with 45.9% against Charito's 0.06%.

Charity45.9%35,518
Chasity31.5%24,414
Charis5.6%4,347
Sharita3.4%2,637
Charise2.8%2,154
Charita1.8%1,406
Clarita1.6%1,244
Chari1.6%1,202

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 Charito is used

Across 1910–2025, Charito was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,668,796 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 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. Charito has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Charito 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: #6,658; 1965
Peak year: 1980; 8 that year
First recorded: 1961
Last recorded: 1980
All-time count: 43
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Charito

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

Chaviva Chaarvi Chaithra Charlii Charny Chatham Channin Chaille Chandre Chandal Chantey Chaslyn Charmen Chariss Chamere Chavely Charlin Chariya Chavone Chantra Charmi Charmie Chakyra Chanaya

Sibling names for Charito

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

For a sister

Sharonda Shameka Darci Tosha Siobhan Starla Shamika Kami

For a brother

Leopoldo Jerod Wilfredo Antwan Ashley Delvin Kareem Dusty

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