Charly
#3,249 for girls in 2025, 48 births · #5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
Given to girls 65.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1986 · 61 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,518since 1975
Charly over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #3,249 | 48 | #5,608 | 16 |
| 2024 | #2,265 | 82 | #3,161 | 38 |
| 2023 | #2,891 | 58 | #3,712 | 30 |
| 2022 | #2,006 | 97 | #2,873 | 44 |
| 2021 | #2,345 | 77 | #3,651 | 30 |
| 2020 | #2,115 | 86 | #3,418 | 32 |
| 2019 | #2,231 | 82 | #4,003 | 26 |
| 2018 | #2,711 | 63 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2017 | #2,597 | 67 | #4,594 | 21 |
| 2016 | #2,221 | 86 | #4,624 | 21 |
| 2015 | #2,294 | 81 | #3,982 | 26 |
| 2014 | #1,853 | 109 | #3,693 | 28 |
| 2013 | #2,508 | 71 | #3,189 | 34 |
| 2012 | #2,028 | 95 | #3,371 | 32 |
| 2011 | #2,346 | 79 | #3,364 | 32 |
| 2010 | #2,514 | 73 | #2,579 | 47 |
| 2009 | #2,614 | 70 | #2,451 | 52 |
| 2008 | #2,802 | 64 | #3,005 | 39 |
| 2007 | #2,394 | 79 | #2,473 | 51 |
| 2006 | #3,136 | 53 | #3,451 | 30 |
| 2005 | #2,524 | 68 | #2,182 | 55 |
| 2004 | #2,652 | 62 | #2,051 | 58 |
| 2003 | #3,085 | 48 | #2,847 | 34 |
| 2002 | #3,810 | 34 | #2,155 | 49 |
| 2001 | #3,785 | 34 | #2,249 | 45 |
| 2000 | #4,649 | 25 | #2,805 | 32 |
| 1999 | #3,639 | 33 | #2,939 | 28 |
| 1998 | #3,173 | 39 | #2,552 | 33 |
| 1997 | #3,897 | 28 | #3,351 | 21 |
| 1996 | #3,028 | 39 | #3,202 | 22 |
| 1995 | #3,422 | 32 | #3,303 | 20 |
| 1994 | #4,376 | 23 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #3,351 | 33 | #4,447 | 13 |
| 1992 | #3,144 | 36 | #3,748 | 16 |
| 1991 | #3,036 | 37 | #4,005 | 14 |
| 1990 | #3,714 | 28 | #3,309 | 18 |
| 1989 | #2,879 | 38 | #3,325 | 17 |
| 1988 | #2,369 | 46 | #3,705 | 13 |
| 1987 | #2,236 | 48 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1986 | #1,838 | 61 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #2,172 | 48 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #2,625 | 35 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | #3,431 | 23 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,167 | 18 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #4,162 | 18 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #4,743 | 15 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #4,242 | 16 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | — | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
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| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
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| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
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| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
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| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
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| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
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| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
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| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,217 | 7 | |
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| 1912 | — | #2,269 | 6 | |
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| 1895 | — | #1,079 | 5 | |
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| 1890 | — | #884 | 6 | |
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| 1887 | — | #921 | 5 | |
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| 1884 | — | #971 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Charly! It came in at #7,173, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1976, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Charly is popular in 1975
No state had 5 or more girls named Charly in 1975, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Charly
- 984 spots since 2024 (#2,265 → #3,249)
- 1,134 spots since 2020 (#2,115 → #3,249)
- 955 spots since 2015 (#2,294 → #3,249)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 1986 at #1,838 (61 births)
- Births halved by 1990, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,389 girls born in 2014 were named Charly (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 33,485 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,838 in 1986, was only 1 in 28,124 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.0% of all girls named Charly (806) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2002, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 49 | #4,242 (1978) | #6,484 |
| 1980s | 350 | #1,838 (1986) | #3,062 |
| 1990s | 328 | #3,028 (1996) | #3,478 |
| 2000s | 537 | #2,394 (2007) | #3,145 |
| 2010s | 806 | #1,853 (2014) | #2,330 |
| 2020s | 448 | #2,006 (2022) | #2,479 |
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.
Charly in 1975
Top girls' names in 1975
Top boys' names in 1975
More about 1975
girls
1,457,861 girls got a published name in 1975; 1 in 208,266 of them was named Charly, which outranked 32.4% of the 10,618 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,484Zoey8
- #6,484Zuleyka8
- #6,484Zully8
- #7,173Charly7
- #7,173Aarti7
- #7,173Abigale7
- #7,173Acquanetta7
- #7,984Aaryn6
- #7,984Abagail6
- #7,984Adine6
Tied with 810 names at #7,173; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,561,357 boys got a published name in 1975; 1 in 312,271 of them was named Charly, which outranked 13.8% of the 6,337 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 873 names at #5,464; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.