girls:
479 births since 1953
#5237 (8th percentile)
overall:
479 births since 1953
#7260 (6th percentile)
The name Charlese is the #7,260 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 479 recorded births since 1953. This represents the 6.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,237 (8.3% percentile) for all time with 479 births since 1953.
Charlese first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1953 (first recorded for girls in 1953). Birth data for Charlese is available in 49 out of the 66 years between 1953 and 2018. 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, Charlese reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #847) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Charlese".
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Our model has identified 16 different pronunciations for the name Charlese. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 19.0% confident that Charlese is pronounced as CHAHR-leez, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is CHAHR-LEEZ, at 11.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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