How Many People Are Named Charla?

6,816

people named Charla are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 50,144 people in the US has this name

Based on 8,026 babies named Charla in Social Security records from 1917 to 2023, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,079

๐Ÿ’Ž๐Ÿ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,713

See the top 100

Peak Year

1969

219 births

Trend

โ†’

Stable (last 10 years)

๐Ÿ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: SHAHR-lษ™
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Feminine form of CHARLES.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Charla in English. Counting Charla and these spellings together, about 12,531 people alive in the US have the name.

โšง Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Charla in the records were girls.

๐Ÿ‘ฅ Age Distribution

The average person named Charla alive today is about 55 years old, and 54% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 45 and 66 in 2025.

Under 30 455
6.7%
30 to 59 3,652
53.6%
60 and over 2,709
39.7%

๐Ÿ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Charla first appears in the records in 1917 and was given most often in 1969, to 219 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2023.

Babies given the name each year, 1917 to 2023

๐Ÿ† Rank History

Charla has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #665, in 1968.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#665 (1968)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#749 in the 1960s

๐Ÿ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Charla alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Charla were born in Texas than in any other state: about 955 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Charla was given 6 times as often in Oklahoma, 3.6 times in Texas and 3.4 times in Kansas.

Texas 955
California 496
Ohio 308
Oklahoma 280
Missouri 246
Illinois 220
Indiana 161
Kansas 135
Kentucky 115
Tennessee 97
Michigan 97
Pennsylvania 95
Florida 93
Colorado 88
Louisiana 88
Arkansas 73
Alabama 59
Georgia 59
North Carolina 40
Mississippi 37
New York 36
Oregon 23
Washington 20
Virginia 19
Iowa 17
West Virginia 13
Hawaii 10
South Carolina 5
Minnesota 5
New Mexico 4

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