Charna
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- CHAR-nuh
- Origin
- Slavic
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Charna is a girls' name of Slavic origin, meaning “black, dark”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Charna mean?
Slavic: Yiddish name from a Slavic word for 'black'
“black, dark”
A traditional Yiddish name among Ashkenazi Jews, from a Slavic word meaning 'black' or 'dark'.
Is Charna a girl's or a boy's name?
Charna is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Charna in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2000, with 4 girls.
Charna in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 4 | #3,399 |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 3 | #3,991 |
| 1996 | 3 | #3,935 |
How popular is Charna in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Charna, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 1965, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 1928.
Half of all the girls named Charna in the US since 1880 were born between 1960 and 1993, the years shaded on the chart below.
Charna in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,375 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,798 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,773 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,483 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,582 |
| 1990 | 10 | #7,874 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,154 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,890 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,820 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,609 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,029 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,290 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,456 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,532 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,802 |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,694 |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,651 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,213 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,514 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,359 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,433 |
| 1972 | 8 | #5,957 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,004 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,817 |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,778 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,041 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,808 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,401 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,008 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,591 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,532 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,545 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,772 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,299 |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,889 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,695 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,466 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,777 |
| 1954 | 0 | – |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,225 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,122 |
| 1951 | 0 | – |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,660 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,611 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,203 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,005 |
| 1946 | 5 | #4,958 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,023 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,572 |
| 1943 | 0 | – |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,665 |
| 1941 | 0 | – |
| 1940 | 0 | – |
| 1939 | 0 | – |
| 1938 | 0 | – |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,798 |
| 1936 | 0 | – |
| 1935 | 0 | – |
| 1934 | 0 | – |
| 1933 | 0 | – |
| 1932 | 0 | – |
| 1931 | 0 | – |
| 1930 | 0 | – |
| 1929 | 0 | – |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,193 |
Names like Charna
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Krisha, Prisha, Viha, Priya, Kridha, Isha, Cara, Risha, Dhyana, Nishtha, Anya, Anvika
Names related to Charna
More Slavic names
Mila, Milan, Vera, Mira, Nadia, Milana, Rayna, Zora, Milena, Raina, Damir, Lev, Siyana, Vlad, Lilyana, Yuri
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Charna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/charna, updated 20 October 2026.