Charly
#3,249 for girls in 2025, 48 births · #5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
Given to girls 65.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1986 · 61 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,518since 1975
Charly over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #3,249 | 48 | #5,608 | 16 |
| 2024 | #2,265 | 82 | #3,161 | 38 |
| 2023 | #2,891 | 58 | #3,712 | 30 |
| 2022 | #2,006 | 97 | #2,873 | 44 |
| 2021 | #2,345 | 77 | #3,651 | 30 |
| 2020 | #2,115 | 86 | #3,418 | 32 |
| 2019 | #2,231 | 82 | #4,003 | 26 |
| 2018 | #2,711 | 63 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2017 | #2,597 | 67 | #4,594 | 21 |
| 2016 | #2,221 | 86 | #4,624 | 21 |
| 2015 | #2,294 | 81 | #3,982 | 26 |
| 2014 | #1,853 | 109 | #3,693 | 28 |
| 2013 | #2,508 | 71 | #3,189 | 34 |
| 2012 | #2,028 | 95 | #3,371 | 32 |
| 2011 | #2,346 | 79 | #3,364 | 32 |
| 2010 | #2,514 | 73 | #2,579 | 47 |
| 2009 | #2,614 | 70 | #2,451 | 52 |
| 2008 | #2,802 | 64 | #3,005 | 39 |
| 2007 | #2,394 | 79 | #2,473 | 51 |
| 2006 | #3,136 | 53 | #3,451 | 30 |
| 2005 | #2,524 | 68 | #2,182 | 55 |
| 2004 | #2,652 | 62 | #2,051 | 58 |
| 2003 | #3,085 | 48 | #2,847 | 34 |
| 2002 | #3,810 | 34 | #2,155 | 49 |
| 2001 | #3,785 | 34 | #2,249 | 45 |
| 2000 | #4,649 | 25 | #2,805 | 32 |
| 1999 | #3,639 | 33 | #2,939 | 28 |
| 1998 | #3,173 | 39 | #2,552 | 33 |
| 1997 | #3,897 | 28 | #3,351 | 21 |
| 1996 | #3,028 | 39 | #3,202 | 22 |
| 1995 | #3,422 | 32 | #3,303 | 20 |
| 1994 | #4,376 | 23 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #3,351 | 33 | #4,447 | 13 |
| 1992 | #3,144 | 36 | #3,748 | 16 |
| 1991 | #3,036 | 37 | #4,005 | 14 |
| 1990 | #3,714 | 28 | #3,309 | 18 |
| 1989 | #2,879 | 38 | #3,325 | 17 |
| 1988 | #2,369 | 46 | #3,705 | 13 |
| 1987 | #2,236 | 48 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1986 | #1,838 | 61 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #2,172 | 48 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #2,625 | 35 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | #3,431 | 23 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,167 | 18 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #4,162 | 18 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #4,743 | 15 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #4,242 | 16 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | — | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
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| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
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| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
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| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
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| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
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| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
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| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
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| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,217 | 7 | |
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| 1912 | — | #2,269 | 6 | |
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| 1895 | — | #1,079 | 5 | |
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| 1890 | — | #884 | 6 | |
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| 1887 | — | #921 | 5 | |
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| 1884 | — | #971 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Charly! It came in at #7,173, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1976, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
See more about Charly
- 984 spots since 2024 (#2,265 → #3,249)
- 1,134 spots since 2020 (#2,115 → #3,249)
- 955 spots since 2015 (#2,294 → #3,249)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 1986 at #1,838 (61 births)
- Births halved by 1990, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,389 girls born in 2014 were named Charly (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 33,485 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,838 in 1986, was only 1 in 28,124 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.0% of all girls named Charly (806) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2002, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 49 | #4,242 (1978) | #6,484 |
| 1980s | 350 | #1,838 (1986) | #3,062 |
| 1990s | 328 | #3,028 (1996) | #3,478 |
| 2000s | 537 | #2,394 (2007) | #3,145 |
| 2010s | 806 | #1,853 (2014) | #2,330 |
| 2020s | 448 | #2,006 (2022) | #2,479 |
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.
Charly in 1890
Top boys' names in 1890
More about 1890
boys
111,024 boys got a published name in 1890; 1 in 18,504 of them was named Charly, which outranked 23.9% of the 1,161 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 38.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).