Girl Names Starting With C

Ranks are overall positions among all 2025 girl names, so gaps between rows are real. For a random shortlist, spin C girl names in the generator, or scan the full top 100 girl names.

How common is C as a first letter for girls in 2025?

Among the 2025 top-1,000 girl names, 52 begin with C; summed, their births are 6.2% of the whole list, the 6th-largest share among the 26 initials. Tier by tier, the 2025 overall top 100 claims 6 of the table's 50 names (1 of those inside the top 10), the 101–500 band claims 22, the 501–1,000 band claims 22, and none rank past #1,000, outside the committed top-1,000 file. The table's last row, Clare, still carries 283 births at #924; any C girl names below it are outside the committed per-letter depth of 50 and are not shown.

Between #2 (Charlotte, 13,400 births) and #924 (Clare, 283), the 50 rows of the 2025 C table hold 72,355 births in all, a top-to-bottom count ratio of 47.3. The middle row, the 25th, is Clementine at #456 with 676 births in 2025. The widest jump between consecutive rows is 74 ranks, from Chana (#686) to Charley (#760); every 2025 girl name at the ranks between them begins with another letter. No two consecutive rows of the 2025 C table carry the same count, so the SSA's alphabetical tie rule never decides the order between them. The 6 names from the 2025 C table inside the overall top 100 are Charlotte (#2), Camila (#19), Chloe (#23), Clara (#63), Claire (#68) and Caroline (#96).

How a rank like #2 is assigned, including the SSA's alphabetical tie-break between equal counts, is explained in Reading ranks and counts.

C girl names across the decade snapshots

C girl names reached the top 200 in every one of the 7 snapshot years: 17 of them in 1955, 10 in 2015. The most C names in a single snapshot was 23 in 1985, led by Christina at #12 with 16,600 births; the fewest was 10 in 2015. The lead changed hands among 5 names across those 7 snapshots (Cynthia, Christina, Courtney, Chloe and Charlotte), and Charlotte leads again in 2025, at #2.

Measured as a share of top-200 girl births, C runs 9.6% in 1955, 9.1% in 1965, 8.3% in 1975, 8.2% in 1985, 7.5% in 1995, 4.7% in 2005 and 5.5% in 2015 — a high of 9.6% in 1955 and a low of 4.7% in 2005. Cut to the same top-200 depth, the 2025 list holds 12 C names with 6.9% of its births, led by Charlotte at #2. To read those 7 C shares against the other 25 initials, for girls and for boys, see First-letter trends since 1955, where each snapshot column carries all 26 shares; the full index is on the data guides page.

Faded and new C girl names

Between the snapshots and 2025, 30 C girl names dropped out at the committed depths — each inside some snapshot's top 200, none among the 50 names in the 2025 table; the 15 rows below are ordered by the most recent snapshot each charted in, then by best rank, and 15 more are omitted. Absent means absent from the 2025 top-50 C list, which stops at Clare (#924, 283 births); a faded name may still be registered below that cut.

The 2025 table also carries 34 names that no snapshot top 200 contains: Catalina (#111), Charlie (#133), Celeste (#188), Celine (#207), Cataleya (#238), Camille (#240), Collins (#241), Colette (#316), Camilla (#361), Carolina (#405), Charlee (#417) and Calliope (#451), and 22 more. That records only that none of the 34, Catalina at #111 included, ranked inside the top 200 in 1955, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015; the snapshot files stop at that rank, so any of them can have been registered below it in any of those years.

The shape of the 2025 C list

Short names (four letters or fewer) number 3 in the 2025 C table, medium ones (five to seven) 32, and long ones (eight or more) 15. Take each length class on its own and the 2025 C list shows 15 long spellings from Charlotte at #2 to Cheyenne at #920, 32 medium spellings from Camila at #19 to Clare at #924, and 3 short spellings from Cora at #113 to Cleo at #577. By letter count, Cora is the shortest spelling in the 2025 table (4 letters, #113) and Clementine the longest (10 letters, #456). "a" is the second letter of 19 of the 50 names in the 2025 C table, "h" of 13, and "e" of 6; 6 second letters are used in total.

Across the sexes, 3 of these 50 spellings also sit on the 2025 boys' C list, where the SSA ranks each sex on its own: Charlie (#133 for girls, #145 for boys), Carter (#454 for girls, #45 for boys) and Cameron (#487 for girls, #76 for boys).

C girl names: questions the data answers

What is the most popular girl name starting with C in 2025?

Charlotte. The 2025 SSA data records 13,400 girls named Charlotte, which places it at #2 among all girl names that year, inside the overall top 10.

How many girl names starting with C are in the 2025 top 1,000?

52. Together they account for 6.2% of the births in the 2025 top 1,000, the 6th-largest share among the 26 initials.

Why does this page list 50 C girl names?

The committed per-letter file holds the 50 most-registered 2025 girl names for each initial, and C fills it: the 50th row is Clare at #924. Any C names below that cut are outside the committed depth and are not shown.

Which C girl name on this page has the lowest rank?

Clare, at #924 with 283 births in 2025. Ranks are overall positions among all 2025 girl names, so the span from #2 to #924 covers names that start with other letters.

How many C girl names were in the top 200 in 1955 and in 2015?

17 in 1955 (led by Cynthia at #11) and 10 in 2015 (led by Charlotte at #9). Those are counts inside one SSA year's top 200; over the 7 snapshots the C count ranges from 10 (2015) to 23 (1985).

Do any of these C girl names also appear on the boys' C list for 2025?

Yes, 3 of the 50: Charlie (#133 for girls, #145 for boys), Carter (#454 for girls, #45 for boys) and Cameron (#487 for girls, #76 for boys). Those are per-sex ranks, so Charlie's #133 for girls (2,160 births) and #145 for boys (2,460) are two separate SSA positions, not one.

Other letters

Boy names for this letter: boy names starting with C.

Source: every name, rank, and count on this page comes from the U.S. Social Security Administration's national baby-names dataset (2025 data, from Social Security card applications). It is public-domain U.S. government data; names given fewer than 5 times in a year are excluded by the SSA, spelling variants are counted separately, and the data covers U.S. births only. Full caveats on the methodology page.