Charolyn
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Charolyn has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1945. 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 1945, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Charolyn, 1945
1 in 531,000
Charolyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Charolyn?
Charolyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1945, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1945
- 1 in 531,000
- 5 of 2,652,840 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 261,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1945
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 367,763 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Charolyn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1945 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 367,763 children born in 1945 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charolyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Charolyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Charolyn was born before 1945 — so the typical Charolyn is around 80 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Charolyn 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 1945 (5)
- Years since peak
- 80
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Charolyn
Charolyn is not the most common spelling — Carolyn is, with 92.9% against Charolyn'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.
Charolyn around the world
Where Charolyn 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 Australia1954–1954#475in 1954
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Charolyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Charolyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Charolyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.