Charlee
#417 for girls in 2025, 750 births · #5,045 for boys in 2025, 19 births
Given to girls 97.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 1,153 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 19,268since 1914
Charlee over time
Rank among girls' names. Charlee has never cracked the top 200 here.
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 | #417 | 750 | #5,045 | 19 |
| 2024 | #398 | 796 | #3,524 | 32 |
| 2023 | #358 | 852 | #3,228 | 37 |
| 2022 | #346 | 924 | #3,691 | 30 |
| 2021 | #272 | 1,153 | #3,180 | 37 |
| 2020 | #275 | 1,138 | #3,274 | 34 |
| 2019 | #280 | 1,172 | #4,230 | 24 |
| 2018 | #288 | 1,150 | #4,918 | 19 |
| 2017 | #279 | 1,161 | #4,466 | 22 |
| 2016 | #297 | 1,101 | #4,470 | 22 |
| 2015 | #282 | 1,131 | #5,058 | 18 |
| 2014 | #314 | 1,056 | #4,392 | 22 |
| 2013 | #325 | 996 | #5,404 | 16 |
| 2012 | #380 | 823 | #6,306 | 13 |
| 2011 | #439 | 710 | #4,822 | 19 |
| 2010 | #558 | 524 | #4,678 | 20 |
| 2009 | #730 | 397 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | #819 | 349 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #979 | 274 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #918 | 288 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #1,093 | 218 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #1,175 | 191 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #1,416 | 140 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,750 | 103 | #7,643 | 8 |
| 2001 | #1,476 | 127 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,885 | 90 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #1,770 | 90 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #1,801 | 86 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,733 | 89 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,898 | 76 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,863 | 75 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,079 | 66 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #2,533 | 49 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,386 | 54 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #1,807 | 79 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #1,716 | 85 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,981 | 64 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,551 | 85 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,720 | 70 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #2,512 | 39 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,222 | 46 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,730 | 33 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,151 | 26 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,167 | 18 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,774 | 32 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #2,699 | 34 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,477 | 37 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,283 | 23 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,909 | 27 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,407 | 20 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,370 | 14 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,155 | 14 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,300 | 13 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,534 | 12 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,619 | 15 | — | |
| 1968 | #4,000 | 12 | — | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 | — | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 | — | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | #4,031 | 10 | — | |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,536 | 8 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | — | |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,967 | 9 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,687 | 10 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,074 | 24 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,694 | 15 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,535 | 16 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,999 | 12 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,350 | 10 | — | |
| 1947 | #2,637 | 15 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,739 | 13 | — | |
| 1945 | #3,132 | 9 | — | |
| 1944 | #3,139 | 9 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,040 | 10 | — | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | #3,252 | 8 | — | |
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| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 | — | |
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| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 | — | |
| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 | — | |
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| 1930 | #4,047 | 6 | — | |
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| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 | — | |
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| 1914 | #3,618 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Charlee! It came in at #3,618, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1929, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Charlee
- 19 spots since 2024 (#398 → #417)
- 142 spots since 2020 (#275 → #417)
- 135 spots since 2015 (#282 → #417)
- Biggest jump: 175 spots in 2006 (#1,093 → #918)
- Biggest drop: 74 spots in 2022 (#272 → #346)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 2021 at #272 (1,153 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2006–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,421 girls born in 2020 were named Charlee (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,143 girls born in 2025 (0.05%)
- Its best rank, #272 in 2021, was only 1 in 1,423 (0.07%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 51.0% of all girls named Charlee (9,824) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,618 (1914) | #3,618 |
| 1920s | 5 | #4,725 (1928) | #4,725 |
| 1930s | 22 | #3,701 (1936) | #4,063 |
| 1940s | 86 | #2,637 (1947) | #3,036 |
| 1950s | 107 | #2,074 (1952) | #4,141 |
| 1960s | 55 | #3,619 (1969) | #4,917 |
| 1970s | 178 | #2,477 (1979) | #4,061 |
| 1980s | 447 | #1,551 (1988) | #2,551 |
| 1990s | 749 | #1,716 (1990) | #1,959 |
| 2000s | 2,177 | #730 (2009) | #1,224 |
| 2010s | 9,824 | #279 (2017) | #344 |
| 2020s | 5,613 | #272 (2021) | #344 |
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.
Charlee in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 5,418 of them was named Charlee, which outranked 96.0% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 408,030 of them was named Charlee, which outranked 14.2% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).