girls:
133.5k births since 1888
#297 (95th percentile)
boys:
382 births since 1933
#4204 (8th percentile)
overall:
133.9k births since 1888
#554 (93rd percentile)
The name Charlene is the #554 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 133,893 recorded births since 1888. This represents the 92.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #297 (94.8% percentile) for all time with 133,511 births since 1888. For boys, it ranks #4,204 (8.3% percentile) for all time with 382 births since 1933.
Charlene first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1888 (1888 for girls and 1933 for boys). Birth data for Charlene is available in 130 out of the 136 years between 1888 and 2023 (130 years for girls and 46 years for boys). 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.
The name Charlene has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Charlene reached its peak popularity in 1949, achieving the 85.5% percentile (ranked #99) with 2,017 births per million. The name was most common in 1949, with 2,017 births per million (ranked 85.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Charlene ranks #850 for girls (10.3% percentile) with 58 births per million, which is 2.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Charlene reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #649) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1937, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Charlene".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Charlene. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.9% confident that Charlene is pronounced as shahr-LEEN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHAHR-leen, at 28.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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