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Charline

The girl's name Charline has been in the national records since 1894, with 6,241 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 13,208th. About 2,900 Charlines are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 64.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Charline

By the numbers

Total US births
6,241
Estimated living today
2,900
Median age today
64
Peak year
1928
Best rank
543rd
Rank in 2025
13,208th
First recorded
1894

How old the living Charlines are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 6,241 babies given the name since 1894, about 2,900 are alive — 46 in every hundred. Roughly 150 of them are children and 1,400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1961 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin French

From French Charline.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Charlines

People named Charline with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Charline is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Charline is most concentrated in Arkansas (10.3×), Mississippi (8.9×), Tennessee (3.9×), Oklahoma (3.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1928

The most popular girls’ names the year Charline peaked:

All the names of 1928

Charline elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Charline 34,340 79th
Belgium girls Charline 1,968 108th
Switzerland girls Charline 583 180th
England and Wales girls Charline 9 5,785th
Ireland girls Charline 3 488th
Scotland girls Charline 3 577th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Charline: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Charline 105 0.008% 433rd
French girls Switzerland Charline 477 0.110% 43rd
Italian girls Switzerland Charline 1 0.002% 176th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Charline is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.17% of children were given it – 25 of them.

Charline: rank by region

In 2025, Charline was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Charline 836 5
Wallonia Charline 174 15

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Charline appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (153rd).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Related names

Charline against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.