Charlee
#417 for girls in 2025, 750 births · #5,045 for boys in 2025, 19 births
Given to girls 97.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 1,153 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 19,268since 1914
Charlee over time
Rank among girls' names. Charlee has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #417 | 750 | #5,045 | 19 |
| 2024 | #398 | 796 | #3,524 | 32 |
| 2023 | #358 | 852 | #3,228 | 37 |
| 2022 | #346 | 924 | #3,691 | 30 |
| 2021 | #272 | 1,153 | #3,180 | 37 |
| 2020 | #275 | 1,138 | #3,274 | 34 |
| 2019 | #280 | 1,172 | #4,230 | 24 |
| 2018 | #288 | 1,150 | #4,918 | 19 |
| 2017 | #279 | 1,161 | #4,466 | 22 |
| 2016 | #297 | 1,101 | #4,470 | 22 |
| 2015 | #282 | 1,131 | #5,058 | 18 |
| 2014 | #314 | 1,056 | #4,392 | 22 |
| 2013 | #325 | 996 | #5,404 | 16 |
| 2012 | #380 | 823 | #6,306 | 13 |
| 2011 | #439 | 710 | #4,822 | 19 |
| 2010 | #558 | 524 | #4,678 | 20 |
| 2009 | #730 | 397 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | #819 | 349 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #979 | 274 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #918 | 288 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #1,093 | 218 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #1,175 | 191 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #1,416 | 140 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,750 | 103 | #7,643 | 8 |
| 2001 | #1,476 | 127 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,885 | 90 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #1,770 | 90 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #1,801 | 86 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,733 | 89 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,898 | 76 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,863 | 75 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,079 | 66 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #2,533 | 49 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,386 | 54 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #1,807 | 79 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #1,716 | 85 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,981 | 64 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,551 | 85 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,720 | 70 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #2,512 | 39 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,222 | 46 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,730 | 33 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,151 | 26 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,167 | 18 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,774 | 32 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #2,699 | 34 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,477 | 37 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,283 | 23 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,909 | 27 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,407 | 20 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,370 | 14 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,155 | 14 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,300 | 13 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,534 | 12 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,619 | 15 | — | |
| 1968 | #4,000 | 12 | — | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 | — | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 | — | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | #4,031 | 10 | — | |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,536 | 8 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | — | |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,967 | 9 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,687 | 10 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,074 | 24 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,694 | 15 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,535 | 16 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,999 | 12 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,350 | 10 | — | |
| 1947 | #2,637 | 15 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,739 | 13 | — | |
| 1945 | #3,132 | 9 | — | |
| 1944 | #3,139 | 9 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,040 | 10 | — | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | #3,252 | 8 | — | |
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| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 | — | |
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| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 | — | |
| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 | — | |
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| 1930 | #4,047 | 6 | — | |
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| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 | — | |
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| 1914 | #3,618 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Charlee! It came in at #3,618, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1929, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Charlee is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Nebraska#338 · 1 in 1,382
- Colorado#473 · 1 in 2,248
- Kansas#504 · 1 in 2,294
- Kentucky#512 · 1 in 2,813
- Indiana#619 · 1 in 3,612
Best ever in a state: #61 in Wyoming, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | #338 | 6 | 1 in 1,382 |
| Colorado | #473 | 11 | 1 in 2,248 |
| Kansas | #504 | 6 | 1 in 2,294 |
| Kentucky | #512 | 7 | 1 in 2,813 |
| Indiana | #619 | 9 | 1 in 3,612 |
| Oklahoma | #671 | 5 | 1 in 3,334 |
| Missouri | #690 | 7 | 1 in 4,144 |
| Washington | #751 | 7 | 1 in 4,194 |
| Wisconsin | #777 | 5 | 1 in 5,009 |
| Ohio | #789 | 10 | 1 in 5,728 |
| New Jersey | #807 | 8 | 1 in 5,074 |
| Georgia | #826 | 11 | 1 in 4,672 |
| Pennsylvania | #841 | 9 | 1 in 6,095 |
| Texas | #1,101 | 21 | 1 in 7,648 |
| Florida | #1,277 | 9 | 1 in 9,523 |
| California | #1,333 | 21 | 1 in 10,972 |
| Illinois | #1,441 | 6 | 1 in 11,193 |
| New York | #2,117 | 5 | 1 in 19,016 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Charlee
- 19 spots since 2024 (#398 → #417)
- 142 spots since 2020 (#275 → #417)
- 135 spots since 2015 (#282 → #417)
- Biggest jump: 175 spots in 2006 (#1,093 → #918)
- Biggest drop: 74 spots in 2022 (#272 → #346)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 2021 at #272 (1,153 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2006–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,421 girls born in 2020 were named Charlee (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,143 girls born in 2025 (0.05%)
- Its best rank, #272 in 2021, was only 1 in 1,423 (0.07%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 51.0% of all girls named Charlee (9,824) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,618 (1914) | #3,618 |
| 1920s | 5 | #4,725 (1928) | #4,725 |
| 1930s | 22 | #3,701 (1936) | #4,063 |
| 1940s | 86 | #2,637 (1947) | #3,036 |
| 1950s | 107 | #2,074 (1952) | #4,141 |
| 1960s | 55 | #3,619 (1969) | #4,917 |
| 1970s | 178 | #2,477 (1979) | #4,061 |
| 1980s | 447 | #1,551 (1988) | #2,551 |
| 1990s | 749 | #1,716 (1990) | #1,959 |
| 2000s | 2,177 | #730 (2009) | #1,224 |
| 2010s | 9,824 | #279 (2017) | #344 |
| 2020s | 5,613 | #272 (2021) | #344 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Charlee in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 8,476 of them was named Charlee, which outranked 94.3% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 332,884 of them was named Charlee, which outranked 24.1% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
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- #10,151Charlee6
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- #10,151Abanoub6
- #11,472Aadesh5
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- #11,472Aahan5
Tied with 1,320 names at #10,151; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.