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Charo

Girls' name

Rosary, through Rosario

Charo has been given to 244 babies in the U.S. since 1966. 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 1976, with 44 recorded.

Babies named Charo, 1981

1 in 384,000

Charo over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Charo: meaning, origin, and history

Rosary, through Rosario

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Charo means

Charo belongs to the name family reached through Charo → Rosario. Its meaning is “rosary”.

Origin, language, and formation

Charo is used in Asturian and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rosario.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Asturian, Charo is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃaɾo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 238 girls were recorded with the name Charo between 1966 and 1981. Its highest annual count was 44 in 1976; its best national rank was #2,000 in 1976.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Charo between 1976 and 1976. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1976; its best national rank was #5,021 in 1976.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Charo?

Charo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1981, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1981
1 in 384,000
9 of 3,459,130 births
Among girls only
1 in 185,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1981
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
266,411 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Charo 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 1981 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 266,411 children born in 1981 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Charos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Charo was born before 1976 — so the typical Charo is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
84.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
238
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Choose a decade

1970s — 84.9% of all recorded uses (202).

Is Charo 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1976 (44)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,000
1976

Spellings of Charo

Charo is not the most common spelling — Carol is, with 37.8% against Charo'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.

Where Charo is used

Across 1910–2025, Charo was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 796,098 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in —
  2. 2Ohio1 in —
  3. 3South Carolina1 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. Charo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Charo around the world

Where Charo 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.

  • South Australia
    1978–1978
    #626
    in 1978

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Charo 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
#2,000
1976
Peak year
1976
44 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
1981
All-time count
238
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,021
1976
Peak year
1976
6 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
1976
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Charo

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

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Sibling names for Charo

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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