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 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 19,072 of them was named Charleston, which outranked 88.2% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,109Marielle89
- #2,109Oriana89
- #2,109Rosalinda89
- #2,128Charleston88
- #2,128Afton88
- #2,128Aniston88
- #2,128Berklee88
- #2,140Annmarie87
- #2,140Asma87
- #2,140Avaleigh87
Tied with 11 names at #2,128; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 25,632 of them was named Charleston, which outranked 85.4% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,042Rafe71
- #2,042Reef71
- #2,042Tremaine71
- #2,062Charleston70
- #2,062Alias70
- #2,062Demetri70
- #2,062Dewayne70
- #2,081Ames69
- #2,081Andrey69
- #2,081Arie69
Tied with 18 names at #2,062; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.