Meaning not yet researched.
Charly: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 48 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,841 in 1986.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,841 in 1986; #3,262 in 2025. About 75% of babies named Charly in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,262 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1986, at #1,841.
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Charly: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 48 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,841 in 1986 · most girls in one year: 109 (2014).
In 2025, 48 US girls were named Charly, making it the 3,262nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 995 places from #2,267 in 2024. That is 34 fewer than the 82 girls named Charly in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,841, reached in 1986. The most girls given the name in a single year was 109, in 2014. For comparison, it was #2,299 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Charly, making it the 5,652nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,480 places from #3,172 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 38 boys named Charly in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #904, reached in 1890. The most boys given the name in a single year was 58, in 2004. For comparison, it was #4,000 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Charly in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1884 with 5 babies. In all, 3,833 US babies have been given the name, 66% of them girls and 34% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,104 babies named Charly.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 746 US girls were named Charly; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 97. In 2025 that was about 1 in 33,485 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Charlie (224,639 babies since 1880), Charley (35,321 babies since 1880), Charlee (19,749 babies since 1880) and Charli (11,838 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 Charly in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #3,262 | 16 | #5,652 |
| 2024 | 82 | #2,267 | 38 | #3,172 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,904 | 30 | #3,727 |
| 2022 | 97 | #2,008 | 44 | #2,881 |
| 2021 | 77 | #2,349 | 30 | #3,664 |
| 2020 | 86 | #2,117 | 32 | #3,429 |
| 2019 | 82 | #2,236 | 26 | #4,024 |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,718 | 31 | #3,548 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,607 | 21 | #4,624 |
| 2016 | 86 | #2,227 | 21 | #4,645 |
| 2015 | 81 | #2,299 | 26 | #4,000 |
| 2014 | 109 | #1,855 | 28 | #3,709 |
| 2013 | 71 | #2,513 | 34 | #3,197 |
| 2012 | 95 | #2,034 | 32 | #3,384 |
| 2011 | 79 | #2,353 | 32 | #3,374 |
| 2010 | 73 | #2,518 | 47 | #2,592 |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,621 | 52 | #2,457 |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,807 | 39 | #3,011 |
| 2007 | 79 | #2,399 | 51 | #2,478 |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,144 | 30 | #3,461 |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,532 | 55 | #2,187 |
| 2004 | 62 | #2,657 | 58 | #2,054 |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,093 | 34 | #2,856 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,826 | 49 | #2,160 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,800 | 45 | #2,251 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,680 | 32 | #2,813 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,649 | 28 | #2,952 |
| 1998 | 39 | #3,182 | 33 | #2,565 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,916 | 21 | #3,365 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,042 | 22 | #3,214 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,431 | 20 | #3,323 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,400 | 18 | #3,616 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,361 | 13 | #4,481 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,156 | 16 | #3,776 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,042 | 14 | #4,037 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,731 | 18 | #3,331 |
| 1989 | 38 | #2,886 | 17 | #3,340 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,375 | 13 | #3,740 |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,239 | 10 | #4,296 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,841 | 9 | #4,524 |
| 1985 | 48 | #2,179 | 7 | #5,232 |
| 1984 | 35 | #2,631 | 8 | #4,622 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,448 | — | — |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,194 | 5 | #6,524 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,180 | 5 | #6,431 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,762 | 7 | #5,017 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,265 | 5 | #6,198 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,284 | 6 | #5,159 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,573 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,521 | 7 | #4,515 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,275 | 5 | #5,595 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #4,713 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,492 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,132 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,027 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #3,824 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,646 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,410 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,260 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,276 |
| 1912 | — | — | 6 | #2,326 |
| 1895 | — | — | 5 | #1,106 |
| 1890 | — | — | 6 | #904 |
| 1887 | — | — | 5 | #954 |
| 1884 | — | — | 5 | #997 |
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).