Charleston
Recorded 1914–2025 · United States
Charleston was most popular in 2015, when 343 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,523 that year. In 2025 it ranked #3,832, with 89 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,813 people named Charleston.
Charleston over time
How old is the name Charleston?
Charleston first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1914, which makes it about 111 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 96 of the 112 years since.
How many people are named Charleston?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,813 American births named Charleston between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 3,568 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Charleston in 2025?
89 American babies were named Charleston in 2025, ranking #3,832 that year.
Is Charleston getting more or less popular?
Charleston is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 97 births a year, against 135 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -28% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Charleston a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Charleston is a unisex name — 34.2% of the 3,813 Americans given it were girls and 65.8% were boys. It changed hands: since 2025 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 60% girls and 40% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Charleston?
Roughly 3,568 Americans named Charleston are alive today — 94% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 13 years old, and half are between 8 and 31.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Charleston is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org