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Girl · English, from Germanic
Charlene
Say it: shar-LEEN
Meaning
A 20th-century feminine of Charles (Germanic karl 'free man') with the ending -ene.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Most common in the US from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1940s
In the United States
- 133,558 babies given this name since 1888
- At its height in 1949, about 1 in 483 girls
- 119 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Sharlene, Charleen
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.