Primarily a boy's name · Unisex — 17% girls / 83% boys
Origin: EnglishCharlie is a traditionally masculine given name in English-speaking countries, often a nickname for Charles, but is now used as a unisex name. It is also used as a surname.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Charlie yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Charlie's rank hit its best mark absurdly early — #20 in 1881, just a year into this whole dataset — while the count itself didn't peak until 1919, at 2,891 births. That's 38 years between the two milestones.
Even with a 23% uptick over the past decade, Charlie now sits at #176 — the lowest current position of any name in this dataset, with just 2,084 births in 2024. Growth on paper doesn't always mean climbing the chart when the base is already this small.
Charlie Chaplin and jazz great Charlie Parker anchor the name's early-to-mid-century image; Charlie Puth and Charlie Hunnam carry it into the present.
Why did you choose this name — or what does it mean to you? Approved stories appear on this page.
→ See names similar to Charlie · Compare Charlie with another name → · Popular names of the 1910s · Boys names starting with C
Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 730 | #21 |
| 1881 | 668 | #20 |
| 1882 | 753 | #21 |
| 1883 | 643 | #22 |
| 1884 | 746 | #24 |
| 1885 | 705 | #23 |
| 1886 | 723 | #22 |
| 1887 | 642 | #24 |
| 1888 | 796 | #22 |
| 1889 | 685 | #29 |
| 1890 | 797 | #21 |
| 1891 | 707 | #23 |
| 1892 | 761 | #28 |
| 1893 | 691 | #30 |
| 1894 | 704 | #30 |
| 1895 | 767 | #27 |
| 1896 | 714 | #32 |
| 1897 | 714 | #30 |
| 1898 | 728 | #33 |
| 1899 | 678 | #31 |
| 1900 | 1,124 | #25 |
| 1901 | 654 | #31 |
| 1902 | 761 | #30 |
| 1903 | 739 | #32 |
| 1904 | 739 | #33 |
| 1905 | 801 | #34 |
| 1906 | 744 | #34 |
| 1907 | 793 | #35 |
| 1908 | 740 | #37 |
| 1909 | 833 | #36 |
| 1910 | 1,107 | #34 |
| 1911 | 978 | #45 |
| 1912 | 1,446 | #57 |
| 1913 | 1,618 | #62 |
| 1914 | 1,906 | #65 |
| 1915 | 2,193 | #75 |
| 1916 | 2,416 | #68 |
| 1917 | 2,536 | #67 |
| 1918 | 2,743 | #70 |
| 1919 | 2,891 | #66 |
| 1920 | 2,785 | #70 |
| 1921 | 2,574 | #76 |
| 1922 | 2,655 | #72 |
| 1923 | 2,471 | #79 |
| 1924 | 2,507 | #80 |
| 1925 | 2,578 | #78 |
| 1926 | 2,446 | #81 |
| 1927 | 2,512 | #80 |
| 1928 | 2,463 | #80 |
| 1929 | 2,185 | #87 |
| 1930 | 2,113 | #91 |
| 1931 | 1,975 | #94 |
| 1932 | 2,127 | #90 |
| 1933 | 1,978 | #95 |
| 1934 | 1,892 | #100 |
| 1935 | 1,926 | #100 |
| 1936 | 1,837 | #103 |
| 1937 | 1,757 | #110 |
| 1938 | 1,801 | #112 |
| 1939 | 1,748 | #112 |
| 1940 | 1,762 | #111 |
| 1941 | 1,756 | #115 |
| 1942 | 1,869 | #118 |
| 1943 | 1,835 | #122 |
| 1944 | 1,881 | #120 |
| 1945 | 1,725 | #128 |
| 1946 | 1,787 | #135 |
| 1947 | 1,914 | #145 |
| 1948 | 1,902 | #144 |
| 1949 | 1,833 | #146 |
| 1950 | 1,678 | #151 |
| 1951 | 1,686 | #153 |
| 1952 | 1,663 | #161 |
| 1953 | 1,534 | #174 |
| 1954 | 1,460 | #181 |
| 1955 | 1,436 | #184 |
| 1956 | 1,530 | #185 |
| 1957 | 1,453 | #193 |
| 1958 | 1,427 | #196 |
| 1959 | 1,415 | #204 |
| 1960 | 1,247 | #221 |
| 1961 | 1,224 | #225 |
| 1962 | 1,223 | #220 |
| 1963 | 1,163 | #221 |
| 1964 | 1,070 | #229 |
| 1965 | 964 | #236 |
| 1966 | 836 | #250 |
| 1967 | 804 | #249 |
| 1968 | 740 | #267 |
| 1969 | 772 | #268 |
| 1970 | 769 | #273 |
| 1971 | 696 | #290 |
| 1972 | 641 | #289 |
| 1973 | 612 | #296 |
| 1974 | 553 | #322 |
| 1975 | 565 | #315 |
| 1976 | 566 | #310 |
| 1977 | 609 | #310 |
| 1978 | 660 | #289 |
| 1979 | 697 | #289 |
| 1980 | 596 | #322 |
| 1981 | 615 | #308 |
| 1982 | 517 | #353 |
| 1983 | 556 | #334 |
| 1984 | 541 | #345 |
| 1985 | 548 | #344 |
| 1986 | 537 | #351 |
| 1987 | 533 | #366 |
| 1988 | 502 | #397 |
| 1989 | 522 | #408 |
| 1990 | 537 | #423 |
| 1991 | 518 | #430 |
| 1992 | 487 | #451 |
| 1993 | 441 | #479 |
| 1994 | 447 | #477 |
| 1995 | 510 | #447 |
| 1996 | 459 | #477 |
| 1997 | 470 | #465 |
| 1998 | 495 | #453 |
| 1999 | 548 | #427 |
| 2000 | 528 | #450 |
| 2001 | 553 | #439 |
| 2002 | 599 | #416 |
| 2003 | 709 | #368 |
| 2004 | 812 | #350 |
| 2005 | 934 | #329 |
| 2006 | 931 | #337 |
| 2007 | 956 | #334 |
| 2008 | 1,090 | #306 |
| 2009 | 1,255 | #274 |
| 2010 | 1,431 | #245 |
| 2011 | 1,521 | #236 |
| 2012 | 1,537 | #233 |
| 2013 | 1,565 | #233 |
| 2014 | 1,696 | #225 |
| 2015 | 1,674 | #231 |
| 2016 | 1,711 | #227 |
| 2017 | 1,793 | #213 |
| 2018 | 1,730 | #218 |
| 2019 | 1,832 | #211 |
| 2020 | 1,871 | #204 |
| 2021 | 2,008 | #188 |
| 2022 | 2,107 | #178 |
| 2023 | 2,099 | #175 |
| 2024 | 2,084 | #176 |
