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Charlie

Unisex name · Current perennial

Living in the US
~119,600 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#145 among boys
Births in 2025
4,620 224,639 since 1880
Typical age
17 years, median

Charlie popularity over time

Charlie rank by birth year, 1880–2025Charlie ranked #21 in 1880 and #145 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #20, in 1881.#100#145best #20 in 188118901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 2025: 4,620 births recorded as Charlie. It is present from 1880, the first year of the record. Charlie has spent 56 years inside the national top 100.

The 2025 position is #145, on 4,620 births. The ten-year change is +43%. Year on year the rank improved by 31.

Babies named Charlie per yearPeaks at 4,620 births in 2025.4,620 in 2025018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Charlie?

An estimated 119,600 living Americans are called Charlie. That is out of 224,639 recorded births since 1880. The split is about 34,900 women and 84,700 men.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Charlie?

Median age among living Charlies: 17. More of them were born in the 2010s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Charlie a current perennial name.

Your Charlie

Ages of living people named CharlieHalf of living Charlies are older than 17 and half younger.median 17020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Charlie is most common

The name is concentrated in Vermont, at 2.9× the national rate. Wyoming, Montana and Alaska follow.

Where Charlie is used more than average5 states use the name Charlie more than the national average.Alaska: 2.5× the national rateAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: 2.9× the national rateVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: 2.7× the national rateMTNorth Dakota: 2.4× the national rateNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: 2.9× the national rateWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Charlie is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Vermont 82 2.9×
Wyoming 76 2.9×
Montana 196 2.7×
Alaska 137 2.5×
North Dakota 186 2.4×

Is Charlie a boy's or a girl's name?

18% girls82% boys
Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

Charlie is genuinely unisex: over the last decade the split is close to even. Across the whole record, 18.0% of births under the name were girls. The name has changed sides: it began mostly on one sex and ends mostly on the other.

Charlie in England and Wales

ONS recorded 1,728 births named Charlie in 2025, ranking it #22. That is 40% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Notable people named Charlie

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Charlie Chaplin English actor and filmmaker 1889–1977 261
Charlie Parker American jazz saxophonist 1920–1955 77
Charlie Puth American singer, songwriter, and record producer 1991 59
Charlie Hunnam British actor 1980 53
Charlie Cox British actor 1982 46
Charlie Kaufman American filmmaker and novelist 1958 43
Charlie Adam Scottish footballer and manager 1985 39
Charlie Heaton British actor 1994 37
Photo credits (8)

The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 711 in 1899 to 1,151 in 1900 — 1.6 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Charlie

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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