girls:
427.3k births since 1880
#82 (99th percentile)
boys:
750 births since 1907
#3837 (16th percentile)
overall:
428.1k births since 1880
#162 (98th percentile)
The name Charlotte is the #162 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 428,077 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 97.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #82 (98.6% percentile) for all time with 427,327 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,837 (16.3% percentile) for all time with 750 births since 1907.
Charlotte has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1907 for boys).
The name Charlotte has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Charlotte reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 99.8% percentile (ranked #3) with 7,214 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 7,453 births per million (ranked 99.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1990, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Charlotte is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #3 (99.8% percentile) with 7,201 births per million.
For boys, Charlotte reached its peak popularity in 1942, achieving the 3.5% percentile (ranked #532) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 32 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Charlotte ranks #902 for boys (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 24.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Charlotte".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Charlotte. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Charlotte is pronounced as SHAHR-luht, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like SH AA1 R L AH0 T) 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.
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