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Charyl

Charyl reached its high-water mark in 1960 at number 1,887, and has been recorded 782 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1989. About 630 Charyls are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Charyl

By the numbers

Total US births
782
Estimated living today
630
Median age today
65
Peak year
1960
Best rank
1,887th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1943

How old the living Charyls are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 782 babies given the name since 1943, about 630 are alive — 81 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 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.

Notable Charyls

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

Where Charyl is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Charyl is most concentrated in California (4.5×).

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

Names of 1960

The most popular girls’ names the year Charyl peaked:

All the names of 1960

Related names

Charyl 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.