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Charlene
Pronounced /ʃɑɹˈlin/
Rank in 2024
#1,758
Born in 2024
115
Peak year
1952 · #106
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 115 girls were named Charlene, about 1 in every 14,028.
- It peaked in 1952 with 3,546 babies, ranked #106.
- It first shows up in the records in 1888.
- 133,629 girls have been named Charlene since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Charlene per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.3Greatest1901–27
- 1.4Silent1928–45
- 1.7Boomers1946–64
- 1.0Gen X1965–80
- 0.4Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 5,199 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Silent: 28,497 babies, 1.38 per 1,000. Boomers: 60,085 babies, 1.68 per 1,000. Gen X: 24,415 babies, 0.96 per 1,000. Millennials: 10,965 babies, 0.39 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,912 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,505 babies, 0.07 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
A feminine form of Charles coined in the nineteenth century. Compare Marlene, Helene and Magdalene for the suffix.
- A female given name from the Germanic languages; most used in the U.S. in the 1940s.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ʃɑɹˈlin/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Charlene, CC BY-SA 4.0.