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The name Charles is of Germanic origin, and means man of the common people. The table below indicates the number of times the name Charles has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Charles**
Use of the Name Charles for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
2,288,597	841,003	261,189	76,798	37,103	15,159	7,507

The table below indicates the number of times the name Charles has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Charles**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	4	5,348	519	11
1881	5	4,638	405	17
1882	5	5,093	373	23
1883	4	4,826	452	18
1884	5	4,802	465	19
1885	5	4,599	431	24
1886	5	4,533	462	22
1887	5	4,032	373	33
1888	5	4,591	470	28
1889	5	4,200	468	28
1890	5	4,062	477	30
1891	5	3,640	476	29
1892	5	4,318	505	29
1893	5	3,724	596	23
1894	5	3,788	571	26
1895	5	3,634	578	27
1896	5	3,640
1897	5	3,341	702	20
1898	5	3,558	772	19
1899	5	3,147	646	23
1900	5	4,108	677	28
1901	5	3,050	666	23
1902	5	3,363	691	24
1903	5	3,212	792	19
1904	6	3,406	713	24
1905	5	3,609	781	22
1906	6	3,609	743	24
1907	6	3,883	846	20
1908	7	3,927	712	30
1909	7	4,026	746	29
1910	7	4,780	756	32
1911	7	5,720	685	40
1912	7	11,064	597	67
1913	7	13,176	749	49
1914	7	16,930	670	75
1915	7	21,984	652	103
1916	6	23,627	609	123
1917	7	24,156	616	123
1918	5	26,955	593	143
1919	5	25,196	618	129
1920	5	28,306	567	161
1921	5	29,245	536	177
1922	5	28,875	489	199
1923	5	28,965	569	160
1924	5	30,442	523	187
1925	5	29,549	472	215
1926	5	29,500	450	226
1927	5	31,917	394	305
1928	5	31,177	413	269
1929	5	29,899	410	260
1930	6	31,774	433	239
1931	6	29,864	443	212
1932	6	31,045	469	196
1933	6	28,919	446	210
1934	7	29,768	501	166
1935	6	29,908	530	148
1936	6	29,067	567	133
1937	6	30,458	495	177
1938	6	31,122	570	144
1939	6	30,811	544	150
1940	6	31,694	591	138
1941	6	32,680	562	155
1942	7	35,880	573	166
1943	7	36,458	572	176
1944	7	34,507	618	140
1945	7	32,447	664	124
1946	9	38,045	699	133
1947	9	40,648	719	140
1948	9	38,546	674	152
1949	9	39,917	721	138
1950	9	39,098	690	155
1951	9	39,217	704	154
1952	9	38,847	826	122
1953	9	38,294	777	139
1954	10	37,410	839	126
1955	11	35,300	799	145
1956	11	35,168	793	156
1957	11	34,226	812	155
1958	11	32,182	902	129
1959	11	30,764	833	152
1960	13	29,661	926	132
1961	13	29,157	994	119
1962	15	27,575	970	120
1963	16	26,797	900	136
1964	17	25,882	917	130
1965	20	23,478	866	133
1966	20	22,255	888	128
1967	20	21,275	922	123
1968	20	21,549	909	129
1969	19	21,682	907	136
1970	21	22,404	888	149
1971	22	19,811	904	145
1972	23	16,960	985	121
1973	23	15,736
1974	23	15,135
1975	25	14,558	964	129
1976	26	13,909
1977	26	14,731
1978	27	14,814
1979	28	14,805
1980	29	14,943
1981	31	14,403
1982	31	14,284
1983	33	13,204
1984	33	12,924
1985	34	12,881
1986	34	12,617
1987	35	12,157
1988	37	12,090
1989	36	12,242
1990	38	11,986
1991	38	11,332
1992	43	10,461
1993	43	9,854
1994	43	9,013
1995	44	8,463
1996	43	8,242
1997	49	7,646
1998	48	7,831
1999	50	7,513
2000	51	7,508
2001	55	7,257
2002	58	7,179
2003	57	7,652
2004	56	7,507
Totals:		2,288,597		10,235

During the last 125 years, parents have used Charles as a boy's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a girl's name.

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