Charleston
#3,249 for girls in 2025, 48 births · #2,991 for boys in 2025, 41 births
Given to boys 65.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1984 · 38 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,508since 1914
Charleston over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,249 | 48 | #2,991 | 41 |
| 2024 | #3,395 | 46 | #2,789 | 46 |
| 2023 | #3,428 | 46 | #3,802 | 29 |
| 2022 | #2,689 | 64 | #2,873 | 44 |
| 2021 | #2,558 | 68 | #2,464 | 54 |
| 2020 | #2,631 | 64 | #2,323 | 58 |
| 2019 | #2,128 | 88 | #2,062 | 70 |
| 2018 | #2,059 | 94 | #2,300 | 58 |
| 2017 | #1,989 | 99 | #2,270 | 58 |
| 2016 | #1,472 | 156 | #2,134 | 65 |
| 2015 | #1,042 | 255 | #1,740 | 88 |
| 2014 | #3,719 | 41 | #2,000 | 71 |
| 2013 | #5,644 | 23 | #2,424 | 51 |
| 2012 | #5,253 | 26 | #2,488 | 50 |
| 2011 | #6,335 | 20 | #2,437 | 51 |
| 2010 | #6,641 | 19 | #2,579 | 47 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 | #2,401 | 53 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | #3,823 | 27 |
| 2007 | #5,895 | 23 | #3,025 | 38 |
| 2006 | #6,592 | 19 | #2,744 | 42 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #3,022 | 34 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 | #3,074 | 32 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #2,780 | 35 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | #3,794 | 22 |
| 2001 | #8,758 | 11 | #2,562 | 37 |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #2,922 | 30 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #2,560 | 34 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #2,394 | 36 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #1,814 | 52 |
| 1996 | — | #2,483 | 31 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,444 | 31 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,766 | 26 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,050 | 39 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,981 | 40 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,952 | 39 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,730 | 46 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,733 | 44 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,592 | 45 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,734 | 38 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,962 | 30 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,794 | 33 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,581 | 38 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,085 | 25 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,890 | 29 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,811 | 31 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,213 | 23 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,943 | 27 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,965 | 25 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,904 | 26 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,508 | 17 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,205 | 20 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,747 | 27 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,928 | 22 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,659 | 13 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,686 | 13 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,739 | 12 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,308 | 14 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,445 | 12 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,139 | 14 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,132 | 14 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,270 | 13 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,546 | 11 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,902 | 18 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,640 | 6 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,409 | 12 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,535 | 11 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,200 | 14 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,642 | 10 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,631 | 10 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,628 | 10 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,979 | 16 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,592 | 10 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,531 | 10 | |
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | — | #2,367 | 11 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,770 | 8 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,802 | 8 | |
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| 1946 | — | #3,173 | 6 | |
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| 1943 | — | #3,231 | 6 | |
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| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
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| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | #3,252 | 6 | |
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| 1933 | — | #3,268 | 6 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
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| 1928 | — | #3,357 | 7 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
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| 1925 | — | #3,155 | 8 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,473 | 12 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,467 | 7 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,872 | 6 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,986 | 9 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,967 | 9 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,728 | 6 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
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| 1914 | — | #3,264 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Charleston! It came in at #3,264, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1917, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Charleston
- 202 spots since 2024 (#2,789 → #2,991)
- 668 spots since 2020 (#2,323 → #2,991)
- 1,251 spots since 2015 (#1,740 → #2,991)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1984 at #1,581 (38 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,781 boys born in 2015 were named Charleston (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 41,660 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,581 in 1984, was only 1 in 47,496 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.3% of all boys named Charleston (609) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2014, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 22 | #3,264 (1914) | #3,677 |
| 1920s | 64 | #2,473 (1924) | #3,257 |
| 1930s | 23 | #3,175 (1937) | #3,368 |
| 1940s | 32 | #2,802 (1949) | #3,116 |
| 1950s | 99 | #1,979 (1955) | #2,482 |
| 1960s | 125 | #1,902 (1963) | #2,433 |
| 1970s | 202 | #1,747 (1974) | #2,228 |
| 1980s | 336 | #1,581 (1984) | #1,840 |
| 1990s | 374 | #1,730 (1990) | #2,217 |
| 2000s | 350 | #2,401 (2009) | #3,015 |
| 2010s | 609 | #1,740 (2015) | #2,243 |
| 2020s | 272 | #2,323 (2020) | #2,874 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Charleston in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 7,000 of them was named Charleston, which outranked 94.6% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 21,781 of them was named Charleston, which outranked 87.6% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,729Shayne89
- #1,729Triton89
- #1,729Wells89
- #1,740Charleston88
- #1,740Aayush88
- #1,740Angus88
- #1,740Aspen88
- #1,753Baker87
- #1,753Brentlee87
- #1,753Casper87
Tied with 12 names at #1,740; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.