Charles
Top 1000
On Nameberry
About Charles
Variation of Carl
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #51 | 7,360 | 3,831.6 |
| 2015 | #50 | 7,204 | 3,758.5 |
| 2016 | #52 | 7,125 | 3,754.5 |
| 2017 | #48 | 7,189 | 3,883.9 |
| 2018 | #53 | 6,663 | 3,668.7 |
| 2019 | #52 | 6,403 | 3,568.7 |
| 2020 | #46 | 6,243 | 3,616.9 |
| 2021 | #50 | 6,003 | 3,431.3 |
| 2022 | #50 | 5,934 | 3,398.6 |
| 2023 | #54 | 5,415 | 3,165.6 |
| 2024 | #51 | 5,593 | 3,246.3 |
| 2025 | #48 | 5,898 | 3,453 |
World rankings
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Famous Charless
- Charles I "the Great" aka Charlemagne
Holy Roman Emperor
- Charles II
VI, Holy Roman Emperors
- Charles I and II
Kings of England, Scotland and Ireland
- Charles Philip Arthur George
Prince of Wales, British heir apparent
- Charles Martel
Duke of the Franks
- Charles II and III
Kings of Spain
- Charles IV (born Carlos Antonio Pascual Francisco Javier Juan Nepomuceno José Januario Serafín Diego)
King of Spain
- Charles II
IX, Kings of France
- Charles X (born Charles Philippe)
King of France
- Charles I
XIII, Kings of Sweden
- Charles XIV John
King of Sweden
- Charles XV (born Carl Ludvig Eugen)
King of Sweden
- Charles I (born Carlos Fernando Luís Maria Victor Miguel Rafael Gabriel Gonzaga Xavier Francisco de Assis José Simão)
King of Portugal
- Charles I (born Karl Franz Joseph Ludwig Hubert Georg Otto Maria)
last Emperor of Austria
- Charles I (born Charles Robert)
King of Hungary
- Charles I
III, Kings of Naples
- Saint Charles Borromeo
Italian cardinal
- Charles John Huffam Dickens
English novelist
- Charles Robert Darwin
English naturalist
- Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle
President of France
- Matthew Charles "Matt" Czuchry
American actor
- Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin
English actor and director
- Charles Warren Fairbanks
26th U.S. Vice President
- Charles Gates Dawes
30th U.S. Vice President
- Charles Curtis
31st U.S. Vice President
- Charles Sebastian Thomas Cabot
English actor
- (Walter) Charles Dance
English actor
- Charles Monroe Schulz
American cartoonist
- Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones
American animator
- (Henry) Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski)
American novelist
- Charles Mingus Jr.
American jazz musician
- Charles Otto "Charlie" Puth Jr.
American singer,songwriter
- (Louis) Charles Auguste Claude Trenet
French singer,songwriter
- Charles Wade Barkley
American basketball player
- Charles Peete "Charlie" Rose Jr.
American broadcast presenter
- Charles Phillip Ingalls
father of novelist Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky)
American actor
- Charles Boyer
French actor
- Charles Perrault
French folklorist
- Charles Francis Adams
son of U.S. President John Quincy Adams
- Charles Y.J.Gh. Michel
Prime Minister of Belgium
- Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry
American musician
- Charles "Charlie" Parker Jr.
American musician
- Charles George Patrick Shaughnessy
5th Baron Shaughnessy, English actor
- Charles Michael Davis
American model & actor
- Charles Michael Levine
birth name of Chuck Lorre, American TV writer and producer
- Charles "Charlie" Carver
American actor; twin brother Max Carver
- Charles Edward Durning
American actor
- John Charles Carter
birth name of American actor Charlton Heston
- Charles Samuel "Chas" Addams
American cartoonist
- Charles Henry Holden
English architect
- Charles Atangana
Cameroonian chief
- Charles Kuralt
American TV journalist
- Charles
Valentin Alkan, French composer
- Charles Villiers Stanford
Irish composer
- Charles Nelson Reilly
American actor
- Charles deWolf "Charlie" Gibson
American TV journalist
- Charles Stuart "Charlie" Kaufman
American film director and writer
- Charles Carroll of Carrollton
signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence
- Charles Elmer "Rip" Taylor Jr
American actor
- Charles Peckham "Charlie" Day
American actor/comedian
- Charles George "Charlie" Macartney
Australian cricketer
- Charles Edward Spearman
English psychologist
- Charles Stewart Parnell
Irish politician and revolutionary
- Charles Devoe
American model
- Charles Conrad "Chad" Lowe
American actor and brother of Rob Lowe
- Charles W. Misner
American physicist
- Charles Michael "Bucky" Lasek
American pro skateboarder
- Charles Albert Gobat
Swiss politician and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Charles Babbage
English polymath
- Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor
former president of Liberia
- Charles "Charlie" Bassett
American Western figure
- Charles Doyle "Charlie" Haas II
American pro wrestler
- Charles Grodin
American actor
- Charles Stewart Howard
American owner of racehorse Seabiscuit
- Charles Rocket (born Charles Adams Claverie)
American actor/comedian
- Charles Ellis "Chuck" Schumer
U.S. Senator from New York
- Charles Ernest "Chuck" Grassley
U.S. Senator from Iowa
- Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel
former U.S. Secretary of Defense
- Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager
U.S. Air Force general and test pilot
- Charles A Bassett II
American astronaut
- Charles Paul Trippy III
Youtube personality "CTFxC," bassist for We The Kings
- Charles Alden Black and Charles Alden Black Jr.
husband and son of child star Shirley Temple
- Charles Lee
American Revolutionary general
- Charles Stephen "Chad" Paine III
American reality TV personality; husband of Erin (Bates) Paine of "Bringing Up Bates"
- Charles Stephen "Carson" Paine IV
son of Erin Bates Paine & Chad Paine
- Charles Spencer "Charlie" Crowe
son of actor Russell Crowe
- Charles McHugh O'Donnell
son of actor Chris O'Donnell
- Charles Max "Charley" Feldman (b. 2016)
son of Savannah Guthrie and Mike Feldman
- Charles Leclerc
monegasque formula one racing driver
- Charles Elisha Manning (b. 2019)
son of American football quarterback Eli Manning
- Charles Osgood (b. 1933) retired American radio & television personality
hosted CBS Sunday Morning
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834
1892) famous Baptist preacher called the "Prince of Preachers"
- Charles Schwab (b. 1937) American investor
financial executive, philanthropist
- Charles Martinet (b. 1955) Voice of Mario
Wario, Luigi, Waluigi, Baby Luigi, Baby Mario for Nintendo video games
Charles in pop culture
- Charles "Charlie" Kelly
main character from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- Charles "Chip" Shreck
character in DC Universe
- Charles DiLaurentis
Uber A from 'Pretty Little Liars'
- Charles Augustus Milverton (or Magnussen)
villain in the 'Sherlock Holmes' series
- Charles Bingley
character in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"
- Charles "Chuck" Bass
character in the "Gossip Girl" series
- Charles Francis Xavier aka Professor X
from Marvel Universe
- Charles Irving "Chuck" Bartowski
main character on TV's "Chuck"
- Charles "Trip" Tucker
character on TV's "Star Trek: Enterprise"
- Charles "Charlie" Fineman
character in movie "Reign Over Me"
- Charles "Chuck" Levine
character in movie "I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry"
- Charles Lee
character in the video game "Assassin's Creed III" (based on a historical Revolutionary War general of the same name)
- Charles "Charlie" Eppes
character on TV's "Numb3rs"
- Charles 'Charlie' Weasley
character in the Harry Potter series
- Charles Dalimar
character in video game Mystery Case Files Ravenhearst series
- Charles Emerson Winchester III
character in the TV series "M*A*S*H"
- Charles "Charley" Hardy
character in G. A. Henty's, Out on the Pampas
- Charles Macaulay
character in Donna Tartt's "The Secret History"
- Charles "Charlie" Bone
the protagonist of Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
- Charles Hamilton
character in "Gone with the Wind"
- Charles Blake
character on Downton Abbey
- Charles "Chuck" Hansen
character in "Pacific Rim"
- Charles Foster Kane
character in "Citizen Kane"
- Charles LaRousse Dreyfus
character in The Pink Panther film series
- Charles "Chuck" Scolnik
character in the TV series "One Tree Hill"
- Charles
main character on the TV series "Charles in Charge"
- Charles Montgomery "Monty" Burns
aka Mr. Burns, character on "The Simpsons"
- Charles Boyle
character in the TV series "Brooklyn Nine,Nine"
- Charles Baker "Dill" Harris
character in the novel and film "To Kill a Mockingbird"
- Charles Vance
character in the TV series Star Trek: Discovery, Fleet Admiral Charles Vance is a 32nd century human
- Charles Wells
Character from the webcomic "Sparklecare Hospital"
- Charles Gunn
character from Joss Whedon's TV series "Angel"
Variations & nicknames
- KarelDutch
- TearlachGaelic
- SéarlasIrish Gaelic
- KarolPolish
- CarlosSpanish
- SiarlWelsh
- CarelPolish
- KaarleFinnish
- KarlGerman
- XarlesBasque
- KárolyHungarian
- CharlotFrench
- CarloItalian
- CarlusIrish
