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Charlee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 750 in 2025. Its best rank was #272 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #272 in 2021; #417 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Charlee in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#417 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #272.
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Charlee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 750 girls in 2025. Peak: #272 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 1,172 (2019).
In 2025, 750 US girls were named Charlee, making it the 417th most common girls’ name of the year, down 19 places from #398 in 2024. That is 46 fewer than the 796 girls named Charlee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #272, reached in 2021. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,172, in 2019. For comparison, it was #282 in 2015 and #2,560 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Charlee in 86 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 19,749 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 10,019 babies named Charlee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,197 US girls were named Charlee; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 1,172. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,143 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Charlee ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #109 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Charlie (224,639 babies since 1880), Charley (35,321 babies since 1880), Charli (11,838 babies since 1880) and Charly (3,833 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Charlee in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 12 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 40 | #109 | #111 |
| Alaska | 6 | #114 | #144 |
| West Virginia | 13 | #119 | #234 |
| Montana | 7 | #148 | #231 |
| Kentucky | 24 | #196 | #162 |
| Louisiana | 22 | #197 | #212 |
| Arkansas | 14 | #217 | #170 |
| Oklahoma | 18 | #218 | #206 |
| Maine | 5 | #224 | — |
| Iowa | 13 | #263 | #162 |
| Tennessee | 29 | #264 | #155 |
| Missouri | 23 | #267 | #209 |
| Ohio | 37 | #298 | #198 |
| Mississippi | 9 | #310 | #184 |
| Maryland | 17 | #311 | #260 |
| Indiana | 21 | #336 | #264 |
| North Carolina | 32 | #348 | #409 |
| Washington | 20 | #357 | #298 |
| Minnesota | 15 | #360 | #216 |
| Idaho | 6 | #362 | #121 |
| Michigan | 24 | #365 | #195 |
| Arizona | 18 | #379 | #347 |
| South Carolina | 13 | #381 | #322 |
| Georgia | 26 | #434 | #222 |
| Oregon | 8 | #443 | #217 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #454 | #268 |
| Texas | 70 | #468 | #373 |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #471 | #275 |
| Virginia | 17 | #472 | #559 |
| Utah | 8 | #499 | #155 |
| Nevada | 5 | #538 | #297 |
| Florida | 31 | #575 | #468 |
| Kansas | 5 | #602 | #174 |
| Illinois | 15 | #628 | #344 |
| New York | 25 | #661 | #477 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #694 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #814 | #282 |
| California | 36 | #816 | #468 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,210 | #674 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 750 | #417 | 19 | #5,071 |
| 2024 | 796 | #398 | 32 | #3,534 |
| 2023 | 852 | #358 | 37 | #3,237 |
| 2022 | 924 | #346 | 30 | #3,704 |
| 2021 | 1,153 | #272 | 37 | #3,193 |
| 2020 | 1,138 | #275 | 34 | #3,281 |
| 2019 | 1,172 | #280 | 24 | #4,249 |
| 2018 | 1,150 | #288 | 19 | #4,959 |
| 2017 | 1,161 | #279 | 22 | #4,495 |
| 2016 | 1,101 | #297 | 22 | #4,500 |
| 2015 | 1,131 | #282 | 18 | #5,092 |
| 2014 | 1,056 | #314 | 22 | #4,415 |
| 2013 | 996 | #325 | 16 | #5,435 |
| 2012 | 823 | #380 | 13 | #6,376 |
| 2011 | 710 | #439 | 19 | #4,848 |
| 2010 | 524 | #558 | 20 | #4,700 |
| 2009 | 397 | #730 | 7 | #10,055 |
| 2008 | 349 | #820 | 5 | #12,846 |
| 2007 | 274 | #980 | 10 | #7,695 |
| 2006 | 288 | #919 | 8 | #8,863 |
| 2005 | 218 | #1,093 | 6 | #10,328 |
| 2004 | 191 | #1,175 | 7 | #9,100 |
| 2003 | 140 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 2002 | 103 | #1,754 | 8 | #7,763 |
| 2001 | 127 | #1,478 | — | — |
| 2000 | 90 | #1,887 | 6 | #9,277 |
| 1999 | 90 | #1,772 | 6 | #8,876 |
| 1998 | 86 | #1,803 | — | — |
| 1997 | 89 | #1,734 | — | — |
| 1996 | 76 | #1,898 | — | — |
| 1995 | 75 | #1,865 | — | — |
| 1994 | 66 | #2,082 | 8 | #6,461 |
| 1993 | 49 | #2,543 | — | — |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,394 | 9 | #5,717 |
| 1991 | 79 | #1,807 | 6 | #7,411 |
| 1990 | 85 | #1,719 | — | — |
| 1989 | 64 | #1,983 | — | — |
| 1988 | 85 | #1,552 | — | — |
| 1987 | 70 | #1,723 | 5 | #7,120 |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,519 | — | — |
| 1985 | 46 | #2,229 | — | — |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,738 | — | — |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,163 | — | — |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,193 | — | — |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,789 | 6 | #5,615 |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,705 | — | — |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,484 | — | — |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,299 | — | — |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,920 | — | — |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,425 | — | — |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,390 | — | — |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,403 | — | — |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,179 | — | — |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,329 | — | — |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,580 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,890 | — | — |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,640 | — | — |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,027 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,341 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,897 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,580 | — | — |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,371 | — | — |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,068 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,232 | — | — |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,587 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,088 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,951 | — | — |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,020 | — | — |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,732 | — | — |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,079 | — | — |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,712 | — | — |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,560 | — | — |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,029 | — | — |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,386 | — | — |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,650 | — | — |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,761 | — | — |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,175 | — | — |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,171 | — | — |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,072 | — | — |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,291 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,353 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,344 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,767 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,114 | — | — |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,830 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,709 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).