Charleston

girls:

1.2k births since 1997

#4509 (21st percentile)

boys:

2.4k births since 1914

#2568 (44th percentile)

overall:

3.6k births since 1914

#4547 (41st percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Charleston".

1914 2023 19142023

Key Statistics

Total Births
1,210
Peak Births
255
Peak Year
2015
First Recorded
1997
Peak Percentile
25.8%
Current Percentile
4.2%
Peak Rank
#713
Current Rank
#907
Female statistics
Total Births
2,421
Peak Births
88
Peak Year
2015
First Recorded
1914
Peak Percentile
9.2%
Current Percentile
2.6%
Peak Rank
#456
Current Rank
#887
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Charleston

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Charleston. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 60.0% confident that Charleston is pronounced as CHAHRL-stuhn. The next most likely pronunciation is SHAHR-lztuhn, at 12.0% confidence.

CHAHRL-stuhn (2 syllables)
Verified
60.0% confidence
CH AA1 R L S T AH0 N
SHAHR-lztuhn (2 syllables)
12.0% confidence
SH AA1 R L Z T AH0 N
CHAH-ruhl-stuhn (3 syllables)
Verified
12.0% confidence
CH AA1 R AH0 L S T AH0 N
SHAHRL-stuhn (2 syllables)
10.0% confidence
SH AA1 R L S T AH0 N
CHAHR-lztuhn (2 syllables)
6.0% confidence
CH AA1 R L Z T AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Charleston. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Charleston, please vote using the thumbs up button.

CHAHRL-steen (2 syllables)
2 names 166 births
CH AA1 R L S T IY0 N

Names with this pronunciation:

CHAHRL-stain (2 syllables)
1 name 128 births
CH AA1 R L S T AY2 N

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like CH AA1 R L S T AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.