Gender:
Origin:
German
17806 famous people named Charles found on Wikipedia.
2392572 male, 12418 female in US.
Most recent ranking:
52-th in year 2018
Best ranking:
4-th in year 1883
Used in: English, French
A male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “man.”.
Charles is a masculine given name from the French form Charles of a Germanic name Karl. The original Anglo-Saxon was Ċearl or Ċeorl, as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England.
The corresponding Old Norse form is Karl, and the German form is also Karl. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as Karolus (as in Vita Karoli Magni), later also as Carolus.
Masc. proper name, from French Charles, from Medieval Latin Carolus, from Middle High German Karl, literally "man, husband" (see carl).
From the Germanic name Karl, derived from a Germanic word, means: man, manly, freeman, peasant.
| Popularity | Name | Birth Year | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charles Manson | 1934 | American criminal and musician |
| 2 | Charles Darwin | 1809 | British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection" |
| 3 | Charles Dickens | 1812 | English writer and social critic |
| 4 | Charles I of England | 1600 | Monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland |
| 5 | Ray Charles | 1930 | American musician |
| 6 | Charles Bronson | 1921 | American film and television actor |
| 7 | Charles II of England | 1630 | King of England, Ireland and Scotland |
| 8 | Charles Barkley | 1963 | American basketball player |
| 9 | Charles Salvador | 1952 | Notorious English criminal and bare-knuckle boxer |
| 10 | Charles Kushner | 1954 | Real estate developer and philanthropist |
| 11 | Charles Dance | 1946 | English actor, screenwriter and film director |
| 12 | Charles de Gaulle | 1890 | Eighteenth President of the French Republic |
| 13 | Charles Lindbergh | 1902 | American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist |
| 14 | Charles Krauthammer | 1950 | American journalist |
| 15 | Charles Bukowski | 1920 | American writer |
| 16 | Charles Woodson | 1976 | All-American college football player, professional football player, cornerback, Heisman Trophy winner |
| 17 | Charles V | 1500 | Holy Roman Emperor |
| 18 | Charles Whitman | 1941 | University of Texas tower sniper; mass murderer |
| 19 | Charles Perrault | 1628 | French author |
| 20 | Charles Babbage | 1791 | Mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer |
| 21 | Charles II of Spain | 1661 | King of Spain |
| 22 | Charles G. Koch | 1935 | American businessman |
| 23 | Charles IX of France | 1550 | King of France |
| 24 | Charles Edward Stuart | 1720 | Jacobite pretender |
| 25 | Charles Sobhraj | 1944 | French serial killer |
| 26 | Charles Vane | 1680 | English pirate |
| 27 | Josh Charles | 1971 | American actor |
| 28 | Charles Oakley | 1963 | American basketball player-coach |
| 29 | Charles Nelson Reilly | 1931 | American actor |
| 30 | Charles M. Schulz | 1922 | American cartoonist |
| 31 | Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk | 1484 | English diplomat |
| 32 | Charles Haley | 1964 | American football player |
| 33 | Charles Martel | 0690 | Frankish military and political leader |
| 34 | Charles Macintosh | 1766 | British chemist |
| 35 | Jamaal Charles | 1986 | American football player |
| 36 | Charles Harrelson | 1938 | American murderer |
| 37 | Charles Baudelaire | 1821 | French poet |
| 38 | Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer | 1964 | British peer and brother of Diana, Princess of Wales |
| 39 | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | 1738 | British general, colonial administrator, diplomat |
| 40 | Charles Lee | 1731 | American general |
| 41 | Charles Grodin | 1935 | American actor |
| 42 | Charles Laughton | 1899 | English-born American stage and film actor and director |
| 43 | Charles Starkweather | 1938 | American spree killer |
| 44 | Charles I of Austria | 1887 | Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary as Charles IV |
| 45 | Charles Durning | 1923 | American actor |
| 46 | Charles B. McVay III | 1898 | United States Navy officer |
| 47 | Craig Charles | 1964 | English actor and comedian |
| 48 | Charles X of France | 1757 | King of France and of Navarre |
| 49 | Charles Aznavour | 1924 | French and Armenian singer and diplomat |
| 50 | Charles S. Dutton | 1951 | Actor, director |
| 51 | Charles Esten | 1965 | American actor |
| 52 | Charles Spurgeon | 1834 | British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist |
| 53 | Charles Ponzi | 1882 | Italian businessman and con artist |
| 54 | Charles Stanley | 1932 | American television evangelist |
| 55 | Charles Mingus Jr. | 1922 | American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader |
| 56 | Charles George Gordon | 1833 | British army officer and administrator |
| 57 | Charles Murray | 1943 | American paleoconservative and paleolibertarian leaning political scientist, author, columnist, and pundit |
| 58 | Charles Michael Davis | 1984 | Actor |
| 59 | Gaius Charles | 1983 | American actor |
| 60 | Charles Ng | 1960 | Serial killer |
| 61 | Charles XII of Sweden | 1682 | King of Sweden |
| 62 | Charles VIII of France | 1470 | King of France |
| 63 | Charles Bradley | 1948 | American funk/soul/R&B singer |
| 64 | Charles Taze Russell | 1852 | Founder of the Bible Student Movement |
| 65 | Charles the Bald | 0823 | Holy Roman Emperor and King of West Francia |
| 66 | Charles D. B. King | 1875 | President of Liberia |
| 67 | Charles Kelley | 1981 | American singer-songwriter |
| 68 | Charles J. Guiteau | 1841 | Assassin of U.S. President James Garfield |
| 69 | Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey | 1764 | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| 70 | Charles VI of France | 1368 | Charles VI of France |
| 71 | Charles VII of France | 1403 | Monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France |
| 72 | Charles Ingram | 1963 | British fraudster |
| 73 | Charles Oliveira | 1989 | Brazilian martial artist |
| 74 | Charles Saatchi | 1943 | British businessman |
| 75 | Charles Sumner | 1811 | American abolitionist and politician |
| 76 | Charles Rocket | 1949 | Actor, comedian |
| 77 | Charles Shaughnessy | 1955 | British actor and Baron |
| 78 | Charles Domery | 1778 | Polish soldier |
| 79 | Charles Coughlin | 1891 | Catholic priest, radio commentator |
| 80 | Charles III of Spain | 1716 | King of Spain and the Spanish Indies from 1759 to 1788 |
| 81 | Charles Boyer | 1899 | Actor |
| 82 | Charles James | 1990 | American football player |
| 83 | Charles Rennie Mackintosh | 1868 | Scottish architect |
| 84 | Max Charles | 2003 | Actor |
| 85 | Charles Tillman | 1981 | Player of American football, defensive back, cornerback |
| 86 | Charles Osgood | 1933 | Radio and television commentator in the United States |
| 87 | Charles Sanders Peirce | 1839 | American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist |
| 88 | Charles Van Doren | 1926 | American academic |
| 89 | Charles XIV John of Sweden | 1763 | King of Sweden and Norway between 1818-1844. Prince of Ponte Corvo 1806-1810 and French field marshal |
| 90 | Charles Hawtrey | 1914 | English film actor |
| 91 | Charles Evans Hughes | 1862 | American judge |
| 92 | Charles the Simple | 0879 | King of West Francia |
| 93 | Charles R. Drew | 1904 | African-American physician, surgeon, and medical researcher |
| 94 | Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor | 1685 | Austrian king |
| 95 | Charles Bennett | 1979 | American martial artist |
| 96 | Charles Ingalls | 1836 | Pa in Little House on the Prairie |
| 97 | Charles Martin | British television director (21th century) | |
| 98 | Charles Napier | 1936 | Actor |
| 99 | Charles Gray | 1928 | English actor |
| 100 | Charles Keating | 1923 | American businessman |
| 101 | Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord | 1754 | French diplomat |
| 102 | Charles Martin Smith | 1953 | American actor |
| 103 | Charles Lyell | 1797 | British lawyer and geologist |
| 104 | Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor | 1316 | Holy Roman Emperor |
| 105 | Charles Cullen | 1960 | Nurse convicted of killing patients |
| 106 | Charles Stewart Parnell | 1846 | Irish politician |
| 107 | Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | 1884 | German politician |
| 108 | Charles Bolden | 1946 | 23rd Administrator of NASA |
| 109 | Annette Charles | 1948 | American actress |
| 110 | Charles the Fat | 0839 | Holy Roman Emperor |
| 111 | Charles R. Schwab | 1937 | Businessperson |
| 112 | Charles Ives | 1874 | American modernist composer |
| 113 | Charles Graner | 1968 | American soldier |
| 114 | Charles Martinet | 1955 | American actor and voice actor |
| 115 | Charles Kennedy | 1959 | British politician |
| 116 | Charles Lamb | 1775 | English essayist |
| 117 | Charles Colson | 1931 | Lawyer, public servant, Christian advocate |
| 118 | Charles Baker | 1971 | American actor |
| 119 | Charles Gibson | 1943 | American journalist |
| 120 | Charles Lightoller | 1874 | British sailor |
| 121 | Charles Aránguiz | 1989 | Chilean footballer |
| 122 | Charles Adams | 1770 | Son of John and Abigail Adams |
| 123 | Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington | 1945 | British peer |
| 124 | Charles Bishop Kuralt | 1934 | Journalist, correspondent, news anchor |
| 125 | Charles Addams | 1912 | Cartoonist |
| 126 | Charles Atlas | 1892 | American bodybuilder (1892-1972) |
| 127 | Charles Curtis | 1860 | Kaw-Osage-Potawatomi politician, Vice-President of the United States from 1929–1933 |
| 128 | Charles Taylor | 1931 | Canadian philosopher |
| 129 | Charles Bickford | 1891 | Actor |
| 130 | Charles the Bold | 1433 | Last Valois Duke of Burgundy |
| 131 | Charles Stuart | 1959 | American murderer |
| 132 | Charles B. Rangel | 1930 | Recipient of the Purple Heart and politician |
| 133 | Charles V of France | 1338 | King of France |
| 134 | Charles IV of Spain | 1748 | King of Spain |
| 135 | Charles Stross | 1964 | British science fiction writer and blogger |
| 136 | Charles Fourier | 1772 | French utopian socialist and philosopher |
| 137 | John Charles | 1931 | Welsh footballer |
| 138 | Charles Goodyear | 1800 | American inventor |
| 139 | Charles M. Schwab | 1862 | United States capitalist and public official |
| 140 | Charles Grandison Finney | 1792 | American writer |
| 141 | James Charles | 1999 | Internet personality |
| 142 | Howard Charles | 1983 | British actor |
| 143 | Charles Robinson | 1964 | American professional wrestling referee and former professional wrestler |
| 144 | Charles Robert Jenkins | 1940 | United States Army soldier |
| 145 | Charles Coburn | 1877 | American film and theater actor |
| 146 | Charles Michel | 1975 | Belgian politician |
| 147 | Charles Wesley | 1707 | English Methodist and hymn writer |
| 148 | Charles M. Blow | 1970 | American journalist |
| 149 | Charles Carroll | 1737 | American planter and signatory of the Declaration of Independence |
| 150 | Ezzard Charles | 1921 | American boxer |
| 151 | Larry Charles | 1956 | American television writer, director and producer |
| 152 | Charles Consigny | 1989 | French journalist |
| 153 | Charles Duke | 1935 | American engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and a former astronaut for NASA |
| 154 | Charles Albright | 1933 | Serial killer |
| 155 | Charles T. Canady | 1954 | American politician and judge |
| 156 | Charles Alden Black | 1919 | California businessman known for aquaculture and oceanography |
| 157 | Charles IV of France | 1294 | King of France |
| 158 | Lorenzo Charles | 1963 | Professional basketball player |
| 159 | Charles Simonyi | 1948 | Hungarian-American computer software executive |
| 160 | Charles James Fox | 1749 | British Whig statesman |
| 161 | Charles Alvin Beckwith | 1929 | Innovative U.S. Army officer |
| 162 | Charles Joughin | 1878 | Titanic survivor |
| 163 | Charles G. Dawes | 1865 | United States Army general |
| 164 | Charles Schmid | 1942 | American serial killer |
| 165 | Charles N'Zogbia | 1986 | Footballer |
| 166 | Charles Payne | American journalist | |
| 167 | Charles Malik Whitfield | 1972 | American actor |
| 168 | Charles Kimbrough | 1936 | American actor |
| 169 | Charles Correa | 1930 | Indian architect |
| 170 | Charles Brauer | 1935 | German actor |
| 171 | Charles Lane | 1905 | American actor |
| 172 | Charles Gounod | 1818 | French composer |
| 173 | Charles Fleischer | 1950 | American stand-up comedian |
| 174 | Charles XIII of Sweden | 1748 | King of Sweden and Norway between 1809-1814 |
| 175 | Charles Palmer-Tomkinson | 1940 | English landowner and philanthropist, a former Olympic skier |
| 176 | Charles Foster Kane | 1862 | |
| 177 | Charles Roven | 1949 | American film producer |
| 178 | Charles James Napier | 1782 | A Commander-in-Chief in British India |
| 179 | Charles XV of Sweden | 1826 | King of Sweden and Norway between 1859-1872 |
| 180 | Charles Hamilton | 1987 | American rapper |
| 181 | Charles Andrew Williams | 1986 | American murderer |
| 182 | Charles Borromeo | 1538 | Cardinal archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584 |
| 183 | Charles Fort | 1874 | American writer |
| 184 | Charles Upham | 1908 | Recipient of the Victoria Cross |
| 185 | Charles Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March and Kinrara | 1955 | British businessman and photographer |
| 186 | Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough | 1871 | British soldier and Conservative politician |
| 187 | Charles Dolan | 1926 | American businessman |
| 188 | Charles Marion Russell | 1864 | American artist |
| 189 | Charles XI of Sweden | 1655 | King of Sweden |
| 190 | Charles K. Kao | 1933 | Hong Hong-British-American physicist |
| 191 | Charles Joseph Minard | 1781 | French engineer |
| 192 | Charles Haid | 1943 | American actor and director |
| 193 | Charles Hallahan | 1943 | Actor |
| 194 | Charles Proteus Steinmetz | 1865 | Mathematician and electrical engineer |
| 195 | Charles Gordon-Lennox, 10th Duke of Richmond | 1929 | 10th Duke of Richmond, 10th Duke of Lennox and 5th Duke of Gordon |
| 196 | Charles Goodnight | 1836 | American cattle rancher |
| 197 | Charles X Gustav of Sweden | 1622 | King of Sweden |
| 198 | Charles Davis | 1964 | American football player |
| 199 | Charles Scorsese | 1913 | American actor |
| 200 | Charles II of Navarre | 1332 | King of Navarre 1349–1387 and Count of Évreux 1343–1387 |