Charly

Where Charly comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Charly.

  • Vowel-ended
Charly through the years
  1. 1932
    Charly Gaul born
    professional cyclist
  2. 1975
    First appearance
    #7,173 among girls with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1986
    Peak, #1,838
    61 babies named Charly, its best rank.
  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 on, more girls have.
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.