Charle
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Charle has been given to 1,061 babies in the U.S. since 1883. 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 1962, with 27 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 88% boys, 12% girls all-time.
Babies named Charle, 2010
1 in 739,000
Charle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Charle over time
In 2016, Charle went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Charle?
Charle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2010
- 1 in 739,000
- 5 of 3,695,928 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 384,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2010
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 512,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Charle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2010 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 512,366 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Charles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Charle was born before 1957 — so the typical Charle is around 68 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 20.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 6.4%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 578
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 20.0% of all recorded uses (186).
Is Charle 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 1962 (27)
- Years since peak
- 63
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.9% average annual change
Spellings of Charle
Charle is not the most common spelling — Charles is, with 69.7% against Charle'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 Charle is used
Across 1910–2025, Charle was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,596,718 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Illinois1 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. Charle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Charle around the world
Where Charle 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.
- France1914–2025#5,088in 2025
- Canada1994–2010#1,973in 2010
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Charle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Charle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Charle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.