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 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Utah#419 · 1 in 1,790
- Tennessee#971 · 1 in 5,061
- New York#1,514 · 1 in 9,948
- Texas#1,948 · 1 in 15,294
- California#2,036 · 1 in 17,421
Best ever in a state: #368 in Utah, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #419 | 9 | 1 in 1,790 |
| Tennessee | #971 | 6 | 1 in 5,061 |
| New York | #1,514 | 8 | 1 in 9,948 |
| Texas | #1,948 | 10 | 1 in 15,294 |
| California | #2,036 | 10 | 1 in 17,421 |
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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 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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 18,797 of them was named Charly, which outranked 87.9% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,100Mayah87
- #2,100Mylee87
- #2,100Sanaya87
- #2,115Charly86
- #2,115Afton86
- #2,115Agatha86
- #2,115Eiza86
- #2,135Aditi85
- #2,135Annalisa85
- #2,135Ariyana85
Tied with 19 names at #2,115; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 53,940 of them was named Charly, which outranked 75.7% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,344Zaviyar33
- #3,344Zayyan33
- #3,344Zealand33
- #3,418Charly32
- #3,418Aceyn32
- #3,418Adon32
- #3,418Advay32
- #3,497Aahan31
- #3,497Agam31
- #3,497Akhari31
Tied with 78 names at #3,418; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.