girls:
1.2k births since 1941
#4516 (21st percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1941
#6538 (15th percentile)
The name Chari is the #6,538 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,202 recorded births since 1941. This represents the 15.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,516 (21.0% percentile) for all time with 1,202 births since 1941.
Chari first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1941 (first recorded for girls in 1941). Birth data for Chari is available in 65 out of the 80 years between 1941 and 2020. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Chari reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 4.7% percentile (ranked #735) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 22 births per million (ranked 4.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chari".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Chari is pronounced as CHAH-ree, which has 2 syllables.
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