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Charlton

#5,899 in 2025Boys' name

Settlement of free men

Charlton has been given to 3,535 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #5,899 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1971, with 82 recorded.

Babies named Charlton, 2025

1 in 221,000

Charlton over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Charlton: meaning, origin, and history

Settlement of free men

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Charlton means

Charlton means “settlement of free men”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,530 boys were recorded with the name Charlton between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 82 in 1971; its best national rank was #821 in 1890.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,283 in 2020 to #5,899 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,914 in 2015 to #5,899 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Charlton between 1998 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1998; its best national rank was #14,567 in 1998.

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 Charlton?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,899
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Charlton sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charlton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Charltons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Charlton was born before 1974 — so the typical Charlton is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
15.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,891
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Choose a decade

1970s — 15.9% of all recorded uses (561).

Is Charlton 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
+3,237
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−616
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−985
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.79×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.3%
Peak was 1971 (82)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#821
1890

Spellings of Charlton

Charlton is not the most common spelling — Carlton is, with 72.0% against Charlton's 5.2%.

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 Charlton is used

Across 1910–2025, Charlton was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 166,361 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 16,667
  2. 2Georgia1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 100,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 100,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in —
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Charlton has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Charlton around the world

Where Charlton 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
    1996–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2020–2020
    #711
    in 2020
  • France
    1986–2001
    #3,645
    in 2001
  • Canada
    1994–2007
    #2,479
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1946–2012
    #514
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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. 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 Charlton

People whose public names include Charlton, 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.

Charlton by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,899
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 616
Best rank ever
#821
1890
Peak year
1971
82 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,530
Count in 2025
15

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#14,567
1998
Peak year
1998
5 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
1998
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Charlton

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

ChaytonCharlestonChasetonChastonChadrickChanningChaunceyThurstonChadwickThorntonBrightonChanstonChampionChancellorChanceyHamiltonClifftonChayseLangstonChayceChapmanCharletonChasenCreighton

Names with a curve like Charlton

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

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Sibling names for Charlton

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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