Meaning and history
Charlton is an English given name transferred from a surname and place name. It comes from Old English ceorl, meaning “free peasant” or “common man,” and tūn, “settlement” or “farm,” producing “settlement of the free peasants.” Several English places independently bear the name. As a first name it retains this locational surname history. Notable bearers include American actor Charlton Heston, who used it professionally, and English footballer Charlton Palmer.
20062006: 32 births, rank #3,306
2007: 20 births, rank #4,640
2008: 37 births, rank #3,103
2009: 32 births, rank #3,399
2010: 21 births, rank #4,517
20112011: 26 births, rank #3,885
2012: 20 births, rank #4,686
2013: 14 births, rank #5,923
2014: 25 births, rank #4,014
2015: 19 births, rank #4,890
20162016: 14 births, rank #6,053
2017: 21 births, rank #4,594
2018: 14 births, rank #6,036
2019: 13 births, rank #6,406
2020: 17 births, rank #5,235
20212021: 14 births, rank #6,032
2022: 13 births, rank #6,479
2023: 9 births, rank #8,255
2024: 8 births, rank #8,987
20252025: 15 births, rank #5,861
Charlton moved from #902 to #940 for boys between 1971 and 1975. Its highest annual birth count came in 1971, with 82 births.