Charlie

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Charlie boys named Charlie

Girls and boys called Charlie

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 40,359 girls and 184,280 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 2,160 to 2,460.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 146 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births

224,639

Estimated living today

117,000

Median age today

17

Peak year

1919

Best rank

66th

Rank in 2025

145th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

40,359 / 184,280

How old the living Charlies are

born that year still alive today

Of the 224,639 babies given the name since 1880, about 117,000 are alive — 52 in every hundred. Roughly 60,000 of them are children and 24,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Charlies

• Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)English actor and filmmaker
• Charlie Kirk (1993–2025)American political activist
• Charlie Sheen (born 1965)American actor
• Charlie Parker (1920–1955)American jazz saxophonist
• Charlie Puth (born 1991)American singer, songwriter, and record producer
• Charlie Watts (1941–2021)British drummer
• Charlie Hunnam (born 1980)British actor
• Charlie Cox (born 1982)British actor

People named Charlie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Charlie is most common

• GA22,359
• TX17,517
• NC15,793
• AL13,186
• CA11,711
• MS10,868
• VA8,769
• TN8,451
• FL8,142
• SC7,912

Relative to how many babies each state records, Charlie is most concentrated in Mississippi (4.4×), Georgia (4.1×), Alabama (3.6×), North Carolina (2.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1919

The most popular boys’ names the year Charlie peaked:

• John
• William
• James
• Robert
• Charles
• George

All the names of 1919

Charlie elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Charlie: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Charlie is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.18% of children were given it – 26 of them.

Charlie: rank by region

In 2025, Charlie was given 5 times or more in 6 regions of Belgium.

In 2023, Charlie was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Charlie appears in the lists for Province of Liège (13th), Province of Namur (17th), Province of Namur (25th), Province of Luxembourg (30th), Province of Hainaut (31st), Province of Luxembourg (36th), Province of Walloon Brabant (39th), Province of Walloon Brabant (58th), Province of Liège (59th), Brussels-Capital Region (64th), Province of Hainaut (82nd), Province of Flemish Brabant (86th), Province of Flemish Brabant (97th), Brussels-Capital Region (107th), Province of Limburg (109th), Province of West Flanders (109th), Province of Limburg (117th), Province of East Flanders (118th), Province of Antwerp (120th) and Province of Antwerp (204th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Charlie by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Charlie among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Related names

• Charles
• Charlotte
• Chad
• Chase
• Charlene
• Chance
• Chandler
• Charity
• Charley
• Chasity
• Charlee
• Chanel

Charlie against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Charlie vs Charles
• Charlie vs Charlotte
• Charlie vs Chad
• Charlie vs Chase
• Charlie vs Charlene
• Charlie vs Chance

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