Charla

Where Charla comes from

The dictionaries list Charla as a given name — a female given name, modern feminine form of Charles — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1917
    First appearance
    #4,083 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1968
    Peak, #664
    211 babies named Charla — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1983
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,252.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, modern feminine form of Charles.
Namesakes

No widely known Charla turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.