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Charleen

Girls' name

Free man, through Charlene

Charleen has been given to 7,384 babies in the U.S. since 1911. 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 1947, with 231 recorded.

Babies named Charleen, 2024

1 in 478,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Charleen: meaning, origin, and history

Free man, through Charlene

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Charleen means

Charleen belongs to the name family reached through Charleen → Charlene → Charles. Its meaning is “free man”.

Origin, language, and formation

Charleen is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charlene and Charles.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,384 girls were recorded with the name Charleen between 1911 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 231 in 1947; its best national rank was #561 in 1947.

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 Charleen?

Charleen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Charleen 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charleen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Charleens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Charleen was born before 1952 — so the typical Charleen is around 73 today.

Median birth year
1952
About 73 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
22.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,118
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1940s — 22.4% of all recorded uses (1,655).

Is Charleen 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 1947 (231)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#561
1947

Spellings of Charleen

Charleen is not the most common spelling — Charlene is, with 45.0% against Charleen's 2.5%.

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 Charleen is used

Across 1910–2025, Charleen was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 43,695 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 10,000
  2. 2California1 in 16,667
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 25,000
  4. 4New York1 in 25,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 25,000
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 25,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 33,333
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 33,333

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

Charleen around the world

Where Charleen 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
    1996–2013
    #5,742
    in 2013
  • Scotland
    1978–1989
    #506
    in 1989
  • Ireland
    1979–1996
    #471
    in 1996
  • France
    1987–2023
    #5,953
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1992–1994
    #2,260
    in 1994
  • South Australia
    1953–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Charleen in other languages

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

Sharleen

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

Charleen 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
#561
1947
Peak year
1947
231 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
7,384
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Charleen

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

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Names with a curve like Charleen

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

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Sibling names for Charleen

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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