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Charlyne

Girls' name

Free man, through Charlene

Charlyne has been given to 1,132 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1946, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Charlyne, 2014

1 in 741,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Charlyne: meaning, origin, and history

Free man, through Charlene

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Charlyne means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Charlyne is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charlene and Charles.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Charlyne is pronounced /t͡ʃɑɹˈlin/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,132 girls were recorded with the name Charlyne between 1914 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 34 in 1946; its best national rank was #1,511 in 1946.

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.

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How common is Charlyne?

Charlyne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 741,000
5 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Charlyne 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 2014 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 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charlyne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Charlynes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Charlyne was born before 1944 — so the typical Charlyne is around 81 today.

Median birth year
1944
About 81 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
22.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
423
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1940s — 22.1% of all recorded uses (250).

Is Charlyne 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1946 (34)
Years since peak
79
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,511
1946

Spellings of Charlyne

Charlyne is not the most common spelling — Charlene is, with 49.8% against Charlyne's 0.42%.

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 Charlyne is used

Across 1910–2025, Charlyne was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 475,637 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Charlyne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Charlyne around the world

Where Charlyne 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.

  • France
    1932–2025
    #1,294
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2013
    #3,199
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1989–1989
    #692
    in 1989

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Charlyne 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
#1,511
1946
Peak year
1946
34 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
1,132
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Charlyne

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

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Sibling names for Charlyne

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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