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“Charles the Great”
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01 / Meaning & origin
Charlemagne is a masculine given name. English Wikipedia gives the meaning “Charles the Great”.
Separate records with matching spellings: Charlemagne (Q19914524)
Meaning: “Charles the Great”
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02 / Across borders
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United States, 2025: 9 boys (rank 8243).
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03 / By the numbers
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1900–2025 Spelling: CHARLEMAGNE
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Source: Insee · Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
« VALEUR : fréquence arrondie au multiple de 5 le plus proche ». « La mise en place de cet arrondi, à partir de la diffusion de juillet 2025, est motivée par la variabilité de quelques unités d'une année à l'autre des fréquences et par la mise en œuvre des obligations relatives au secret statistique. » « En raison des arrondis, la somme des effectifs départementaux peut différer des effectifs régionaux ou nationaux. » Every observation is therefore valueStatus=rounded (verified: 0 rows with a count that is not a multiple of 5).
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 20 | 290 | rounded |
| 1901 | 25 | 256 | rounded |
| 1902 | 20 | 305 | rounded |
| 1903 | 20 | 289 | rounded |
| 1904 | 20 | 277 | rounded |
| 1905 | 25 | 263 | rounded |
| 1906 | 25 | 267 | rounded |
| 1907 | 35 | 240 | rounded |
| 1908 | 25 | 272 | rounded |
| 1909 | 25 | 267 | rounded |
| 1910 | 20 | 287 | rounded |
| 1911 | 25 | 269 | rounded |
| 1912 | 20 | 296 | rounded |
| 1913 | 25 | 279 | rounded |
| 1914 | 30 | 255 | rounded |
| 1915 | 15 | 329 | rounded |
| 1916 | 15 | 283 | rounded |
| 1917 | 10 | 357 | rounded |
| 1918 | 15 | 299 | rounded |
| 1919 | 15 | 276 | rounded |
| 1920 | 25 | 265 | rounded |
| 1921 | 25 | 285 | rounded |
| 1922 | 15 | 320 | rounded |
| 1923 | 10 | 458 | rounded |
| 1924 | 10 | 432 | rounded |
| 1925 | 15 | 416 | rounded |
| 1926 | 15 | 404 | rounded |
| 1927 | 20 | 351 | rounded |
| 1928 | 20 | 350 | rounded |
| 1929 | 15 | 367 | rounded |
| 1930 | 20 | 329 | rounded |
| 1931 | 15 | 417 | rounded |
| 1932 | 15 | 353 | rounded |
| 1933 | 15 | 390 | rounded |
| 1934 | 5 | 628 | rounded |
| 1935 | 15 | 345 | rounded |
| 1936 | 15 | 372 | rounded |
| 1937 | 10 | 397 | rounded |
| 1938 | 25 | 268 | rounded |
| 1939 | 10 | 425 | rounded |
| 1940 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1941 | 10 | 424 | rounded |
| 1942 | 10 | 466 | rounded |
| 1943 | 10 | 432 | rounded |
| 1944 | 5 | 817 | rounded |
| 1945 | 5 | 533 | rounded |
| 1946 | 10 | 500 | rounded |
| 1947 | 5 | 781 | rounded |
| 1948 | 10 | 484 | rounded |
| 1949 | 10 | 489 | rounded |
| 1950 | 10 | 492 | rounded |
| 1951 | 5 | 1,221 | rounded |
| 1952 | 15 | 477 | rounded |
| 1953 | 5 | 744 | rounded |
| 1954 | 10 | 654 | rounded |
| 1955 | 10 | 540 | rounded |
| 1956 | 10 | 590 | rounded |
| 1957 | 10 | 664 | rounded |
| 1958 | 5 | 1,421 | rounded |
| 1959 | 5 | 928 | rounded |
| 1960 | 5 | 1,170 | rounded |
| 1961 | 10 | 801 | rounded |
| 1962 | 5 | 1,075 | rounded |
| 1963 | 5 | 1,633 | rounded |
| 1964 | 5 | 1,683 | rounded |
| 1965 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1966 | 5 | 1,734 | rounded |
| 1967 | 5 | 949 | rounded |
| 1968 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1969 | 10 | 932 | rounded |
| 1970 | 5 | 1,424 | rounded |
| 1971 | 5 | 1,884 | rounded |
| 1972 | 5 | 1,613 | rounded |
| 1973 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1974 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1975 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1976 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1977 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1978 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1979 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1980 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1981 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1982 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1983 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1984 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1985 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1986 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1987 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1988 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1989 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1990 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1991 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1992 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1993 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1994 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1995 | 5 | 3,263 | rounded |
| 1996 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1997 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1998 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1999 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2000 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2001 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2002 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2003 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2004 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2005 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2006 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2007 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2008 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2009 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2010 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2011 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2012 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2013 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2014 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2015 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2016 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2017 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2018 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2019 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2023 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2024 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
Statistics count the spelling “CHARLEMAGNE” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Released 2026-07-16 · Retrieved 2026-10-14 · LO-2.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
Charlemagne— “Charles the Great”
Another namesake of Charlemagne must not be forgotten, namely, the son of St. Olaf, of Norway, whom his followers, intending an agreeable surprise to the father, baptized after the great emperor by the name of Magnus, whence the very frequent Magnus, of Scandinavia, and Manus of Ireland.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter V (The Karling Romances), Section II (Charles) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
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Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.
