Charna

#15,399 in 2025Girls' name

Black

Charna has been given to 560 babies in the U.S. since 1928. In 2025 it ranked #15,399 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1965, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Charna, 2025

1 in 663,000

Charna over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Charna: meaning, origin, and history

Black

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Charna means

Charna means “black”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Charna is used in Yiddish (Rare).

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 560 girls were recorded with the name Charna between 1928 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1965; its best national rank was #2,688 in 1942.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #12,412 in 2020 to #15,399 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #12,068 in 2015 to #15,399 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Charna?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 321,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #15,399; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 459,581 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Charna 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Charnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Charna was born before 1977 — so the typical Charna is around 48 today.

Median birth year: 1977; About 48 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 17.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 22.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 496; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 17.1% of all recorded uses (96).

Is Charna 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: −2,976; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −2,987; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −3,331; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.63×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 35.7%; Peak was 1965 (14)
Years since peak: 60; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 29.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,688; 1942

Spellings of Charna

Charna is not the most common spelling — Clara is, with 32.8% against Charna's 0.06%.

Clara32.8%300,524
Carla16.4%150,390
Cara5.8%53,305
Shawna5.0%45,531
Hanna4.6%42,005
Ciara3.8%34,876
Shana3.2%29,635
Shanna3.1%28,284

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 Charna is used

Across 1910–2025, Charna was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 205,023 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 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. Charna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Charna around the world

Where Charna 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
1996–2011
#5,785
in 2011
South Australia
1993–1999
#729
in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Charna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #15,399
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 2,987
Best rank ever: #2,688; 1942
Peak year: 1965; 14 that year
First recorded: 1928
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 560
Count in 2025: 5

Names similar to Charna

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

Charvi Chayse Chanie Chapel Charlea Chavy Chaney Chance Charish Chani Charde Aparna Chara Chavon Chaitra Charly Charee Charm Chasya Chanae Charyl Chany Chaise Chanta

Sibling names for Charna

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Kandy Danette Joellen Treva Tena Tana Bettina Teressa

For a brother

Berry Tod Tracey Mitch Toney Deron Rob Stacey

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