girls:
5 births since 1998
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
3.5k births since 1888
#2107 (54th percentile)
overall:
3.5k births since 1888
#4617 (40th percentile)
The name Charlton is the #4,617 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,512 recorded births since 1888. This represents the 40.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 40.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,107 (54.0% percentile) for all time with 3,507 births since 1888. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1998.
Charlton first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1888 (1888 for boys and 1998 for girls). Birth data for Charlton is available in 121 out of the 136 years between 1888 and 2023 (121 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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 Charlton has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Charlton reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 11.6% percentile (ranked #590) with 45 births per million. The name was most common in 1890, with 58 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Charlton ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 8.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Charlton reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #874) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Charlton".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Charlton. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.4% confident that Charlton is pronounced as CHAHRLT-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHAHRLT-uhn, at 11.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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