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Charles
Pronounced /t͡ʃɑɹlz/
Rank in 2024
#51
Born in 2024
5,593
Peak year
1947 · #9
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for girls:8 in 2024 (#11,901)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 5,593 boys were named Charles, about 1 in every 307.
- It peaked in 1947 with 40,779 babies, ranked #9.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 2,428,685 boys have been named Charles since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Charles per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 26.5Greatest1901–27
- 27.5Silent1928–45
- 17.5Boomers1946–64
- 10.6Gen X1965–80
- 6.1Millennials1981–96
- 3.8Gen Z1997–12
- 3.6Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 442,478 babies, 26.47 per 1,000. Silent: 568,432 babies, 27.52 per 1,000. Boomers: 658,008 babies, 17.52 per 1,000. Gen X: 288,262 babies, 10.59 per 1,000. Millennials: 186,351 babies, 6.12 per 1,000. Gen Z: 119,395 babies, 3.80 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 78,157 babies, 3.60 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From French Charles, from Old French Charles, Carles, from Latin Carolus, from and also reinfluenced by Frankish and Old High German Karl, from Proto-Germanic *karilaz (“free man”); compare the English word churl and the German Kerl. In reference to the Ecuadorian island, a clipping of the original name King Charles's Island, granted in honor of Charles II of England.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /t͡ʃɑɹlz/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Charles, CC BY-SA 4.0.