Charly

Where Charly comes from

The dictionaries list Charly as a given name — a unisex given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1932
    Charly Gaul born
    professional cyclist
  2. 1975
    First appearance
    #7,173 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1986
    Peak, #1,838
    61 babies named Charly — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1990
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,714.
  5. 1996
    Charly Musonda born
    Belgian association football player
  6. 2003
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Charles, variant of Charlie.
  • A diminutive of the female given names Charlene and Charlotte, variant of Charley.
Namesakes
  • Charly Gaul · professional cyclist, 1932–2005
  • Charly Musonda · Belgian association football player, born 1996
  • Charly Loubet · French association football player, 1946–2023
  • Charly Grosskost · French road bicycle racer, 1944–2004
  • Charly Boy · Nigerian musician, songwriter, Nollywood actor, Television presenter, publisher, and Producer who is popular for The Charly Boy Show., born 1950

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.