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Charbel

Boy · shar-BEL · Aramaic

Charbel is a boys' name of Aramaic origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,313th for boys in the US (35 babies).

What does Charbel mean?

Aramaic: Syriac name used by Lebanese Maronites

Honours Saint Charbel Makhlouf, a 19th-century Lebanese Maronite monk and hermit.

Say it
shar-BEL

Is Charbel a girl's or a boy's name?

Charbel is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 35 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Charbel in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2019, with 8 boys.

1998Busiest: 8 in 20192020
Charbel in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20203#4,803
20198#2,633
20184#4,169
20173#4,995
20160–
20150–
20140–
20130–
20120–
20110–
20100–
20093#4,691
20080–
20075#3,231
20066#2,645
20050–
20040–
20030–
20023#3,325
20010–
20000–
19990–
19986#1,932

How popular is Charbel in the US?

Rank in 2025
#3,313among boys
Babies in 2025
35about 1 in 49,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 40% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 35 boys in the US were named Charbel, making it the 3,313th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,495th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 60 boys. It first appears in the records in 1988.

2025 had more boys named Charbel than any year since 2019.

Half of all the boys named Charbel in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

1988Busiest: 60 in 20192025
Charbel in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202535#3,313
202426#4,069
202328#3,880
202228#3,876
202128#3,810
202031#3,495
201960#2,291
201857#2,324
201757#2,294
201649#2,550
201536#3,148
201419#4,862
201318#4,978
201217#5,250
201115#5,670
201018#5,044
200911#7,231
200819#4,897
200725#4,009
200614#5,777
200518#4,626
200414#5,487
20038#7,824
20029#7,048
20018#7,529
20008#7,409
19996#8,697
199811#5,460
19970–
19968#6,489
19958#6,400
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19907#6,408
19890–
19885#7,264

Names like Charbel

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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