Feminine dossier · first seen 1937

Charon

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Charon
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1973

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Gen X

1937Peak 19732024

Peak year

1973

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,001

Charon has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Gen X naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1973, when 29 girls were named Charon.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,001 Americans have been named Charon and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1937.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGen X

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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