Charli

What Charli means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Charli yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #496 vs #4,867 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Charli?

US: Rising: up from #554 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #2070 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2021, when 845 girls got the name (#364 that year). First in the US records in 1975.

How common

• About 1 in 2,692 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 63,320 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,578 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in OK (1.29 per 1,000 girls), ID (1.26 per 1,000 girls), LA (0.98 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Charli is #496 in the US and #4867 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Charli were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Charlee750 US
• Charley356 US · 20 E&W
• Charly48 US
• Sharla8 US
• Charlii6 US
• Charliee6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Charli

Girls

• Charlotte#2Form of Charles, meaning “free man”^*
• Nora#20Form of Eleanor, possibly meaning “other”^*
• Amelia#4“vigor, bravery”^*
• Lena#279“the Large River”^*
• Ada#219“noble”^*
• Hazel#21From the word “hazel”^*

For a brother

• Jameson#137Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #137 vs #1,093 in 2025
• Oliver#3Editor’s note Up from #19 in 2015 to #3 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 110 US boys in the 2025 records
• Kash#286Editor’s note Up from #382 in 2015 to #286 in 2025 in the US
• Ace#164Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #419 in 2015, #164 in 2025
• Henry#5Editor’s note Up from #29 in 2015 to #5 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 140 US boys in the 2025 records
• Leo#19“lion”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Charli’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.