Charnel
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Charnel has been given to 66 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 1991, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Charnel, 1994
1 in 619,000
Charnel over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Charnel?
Charnel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1994
- 1 in 619,000
- 6 of 3,715,972 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 297,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1994
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 429,287 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Charnel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1994 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 429,287 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charnel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Charnels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Charnel was born before 1981 — so the typical Charnel is around 44 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 39.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 84.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 66
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 39.4% of all recorded uses (26).
Is Charnel 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 1991 (9)
- Years since peak
- 34
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.6% average annual change
Spellings of Charnel
Charnel is not the most common spelling — Charlee is, with 19.6% against Charnel's 0.07%.
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.
Charnel around the world
Where Charnel 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 & Wales1999–1999#3,900in 1999
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Charnel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Charnel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Charnel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.