girls:
1.8k births since 1903
#3975 (30th percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1903
#5945 (23rd percentile)
The name Charlena is the #5,945 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,809 recorded births since 1903. This represents the 23.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 23.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,975 (30.4% percentile) for all time with 1,809 births since 1903.
Charlena first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1903 (first recorded for girls in 1903). Birth data for Charlena is available in 99 out of the 113 years between 1903 and 2015. 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, Charlena reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 5.4% percentile (ranked #715) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 28 births per million (ranked 5.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Charlena".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Charlena. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.2% confident that Charlena is pronounced as shahr-LEE-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHAHR-lee-nuh, at 23.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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