Charlie
Charlie is ranked 176th among boys in 2024 (2,084 births). Its best rank was 20th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- #176down 1 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,0840.12% of boys
- Peak year
- 19192,891 births
- Best rank
- #20in 1881
- Since 1880
- 219,996people given the name
The story in the numbers
181,806 boys have been named Charlie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 2,891 births — 0.29% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 225 → 176).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1920s alone account for 14%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 56 of them in the top 100.
Charlie is used for both sexes: 17% of its bearers are girls (38,190), most of them born around 2022.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Charlie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7,091 | |
| 1890s | 7,261 | |
| 1900s | 7,928 | |
| 1910s | 19,834 | |
| 1920s | 25,176 | |
| 1930s | 19,154 | |
| 1940s | 18,264 | |
| 1950s | 15,282 | |
| 1960s | 10,043 | |
| 1970s | 6,368 | |
| 1980s | 5,467 | |
| 1990s | 4,912 | |
| 2000s | 8,367 | |
| 2010s | 16,490 | |
| 2020s | 10,169 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Charlie was the 66th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1919 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Charlie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hendersonpeak 1918
- Sampeak 1918
- Judgepeak 1919
- Luciuspeak 2022
- Guspeak 1921
- Benpeak 1918
- Archiepeak 1918
- Lutherpeak 1922
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.