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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Charleston is popular in 1986
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#1,314 · 1 in 29,265
Best ever in a state: #479 in Louisiana, 1989.
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| Texas | #1,314 | 5 | 1 in 29,265 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 1986
Top boys' names in 1986
More about 1986
boys
1,841,515 boys got a published name in 1986; 1 in 61,384 of them was named Charleston, which outranked 74.9% of the 7,830 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,917Woody31
- #1,917Yousef31
- #1,917Yuri31
- #1,962Charleston30
- #1,962Blain30
- #1,962Carleton30
- #1,962Chauncy30
- #2,007Adnan29
- #2,007Ankur29
- #2,007Antjuan29
Tied with 44 names at #1,962; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.