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Charlette

#2,462 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Charlette has been given to 4,360 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #2,462 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1971, with 85 recorded.

Babies named Charlette, 2025

1 in 46,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Charlette: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Charlette means

Charlette is a given name.

The naming story behind Charlette

Wikidata records Charlette as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q63725885, 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, 4,360 girls were recorded with the name Charlette between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 85 in 1971; its best national rank was #1,089 in 1949.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,260 in 2020 to #2,462 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,264 in 2015 to #2,462 in 2025.

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 Charlette?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 46,000
72 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 22,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,462
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
31,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Charlette 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 2025 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 31,916 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charlette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Charlettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Charlette was born before 1973 — so the typical Charlette is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
15.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,633
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 15.7% of all recorded uses (685).

Is Charlette 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
+518
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−202
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+802
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.44×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.7%
Peak was 1971 (85)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,089
1949

Spellings of Charlette

Charlette is not the most common spelling — Charlotte is, with 71.2% against Charlette's 0.68%.

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 Charlette is used

Across 2016–2025, Charlette was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 41,992 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wisconsin1 in 16,667
  2. 2Michigan1 in 20,000
  3. 3Missouri1 in 25,000
  4. 4California1 in 33,333
  5. 5Indiana1 in 33,333
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  7. 7Arizona1 in 50,000
  8. 8Colorado1 in 50,000

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.

Charlette around the world

Where Charlette 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
    1996–2006
    #5,061
    in 2006
  • France
    1900–1990
    #3,174
    in 1990
  • Canada
    2010–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1980–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Notable people named Charlette

People whose public names include Charlette, 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.

Charlette in other languages

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

CaroletteCharlotte

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

Charlette by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,462
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 202
Best rank ever
#1,089
1949
Peak year
1971
85 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,360
Count in 2025
72

Names similar to Charlette

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

CharoletteChantelleCharnetteCharleighChanningCharismaCharlotteCharissaChanelleChassidyCharlizeCharlineScarletteChandlerCharlytteChanellHarrietteCharlestonChasidyChantalCharisseChantellCharisBrigette

Names with a curve like Charlette

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

ColletteCameliaJoellaJosetteJolynnSuzieRonniAdelaidaLaniRayleneGinnyLuana

Sibling names for Charlette

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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