Charney
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Charney has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1986. 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 1990, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Charney, 1990
1 in 658,000
Charney 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Charney?
Charney had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1990
- 1 in 658,000
- 6 of 3,949,959 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 316,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1990
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 456,318 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Charney sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 456,318 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charney. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Charneys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Charney was born before 1990 — so the typical Charney is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 54.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 11
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Charney 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1990 (6)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Charney
Charney is not the most common spelling — Charity is, with 20.6% against Charney's <0.01%.
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.
Charney around the world
Where Charney 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 & Wales1997–1997#3,824in 1997
- South Australia1989–1989#692in 1989
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.
Charney by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Charney
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Charney
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.