Charlie

What Charlie means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #22 vs #145 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Charlie?

US: Rising: up from #231 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #6 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1900, when 1,124 boys got the name (#25 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 694 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 162 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 118 baby boys 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 VT (6.6 per 1,000 boys), WY (5.5 per 1,000 boys), AK (3.96 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Charlie is #145 in the US and #22 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 53.2% of US babies named Charlie were boys.

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

How to say it

Wiktionary only lists the US pronunciation so far.

IPA from Wiktionary.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Charley

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Charlie

Boys

• Kash#286Editor’s note Up from #382 in 2015 to #286 in 2025 in the US
• 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
• 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
• Lennox#289Editor’s note Used for both: 75% of US babies named Lennox in 2025 were boys
• Archer#98Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #289 in 2015, #98 in 2025
• Ace#164Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #419 in 2015, #164 in 2025

For a sister

• Eloise#49Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #254 in 2015, #49 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Genevieve#148possibly “kin, family + woman, wife”^*
• Charlotte#2Form of Charles, meaning “free man”^*
• Amelia#4“vigor, bravery”^*
• Lucille#237Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 7,989 babies; 1,314 in 2025
• Lucia#83Variant of Lucy, meaning “light”^*

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 Charlie’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.