Charlee
Charlee was given to 750 girls in 2025, #417 among girls’ names; 19,749 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 19,500 Americans named Charlee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Charlee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Charlee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Charlee is “a female given name.”
Modern variant of Charlie.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Charlee?
#417 among girls’ names, 2025
Charlee fell from #282 in 2015 to #417 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.63 to 0.47 per 1,000.
1,196 babies in 2019, the peak
Charlee peaked in 2019, when 1,196 babies were given it (1,172 girls, #280 among girls’ names). The 769 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 64% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 750 | #417 | 0.47 |
| 2024 | 796 | #398 | 0.49 |
| 2023 | 852 | #358 | 0.53 |
| 2022 | 924 | #346 | 0.56 |
| 2021 | 1,153 | #272 | 0.70 |
| 2020 | 1,138 | #275 | 0.70 |
| 2019 | 1,172 | #280 | 0.70 |
| 2018 | 1,150 | #288 | 0.68 |
| 2017 | 1,161 | #279 | 0.67 |
| 2016 | 1,101 | #297 | 0.62 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,131 | #282 | 0.63 |
| 2014 | 1,056 | #314 | 0.59 |
| 2013 | 996 | #325 | 0.57 |
| 2012 | 823 | #380 | 0.47 |
| 2011 | 710 | #439 | 0.40 |
| 2010 | 524 | #558 | 0.29 |
| 2009 | 397 | #730 | 0.22 |
| 2008 | 349 | #820 | 0.18 |
| 2007 | 274 | #980 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 288 | #919 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 218 | #1,093 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 191 | #1,174 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 140 | #1,415 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 103 | #1,752 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 127 | #1,477 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 90 | #1,883 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 90 | #1,769 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 86 | #1,800 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 89 | #1,732 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 76 | #1,896 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 75 | #1,860 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 66 | #2,077 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 49 | #2,538 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,389 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 79 | #1,801 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 85 | #1,715 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 64 | #1,978 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 85 | #1,551 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 70 | #1,722 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,518 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 46 | #2,228 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,737 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,162 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,192 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,789 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,705 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,484 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,299 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,919 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,424 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,388 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,402 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,178 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,328 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,578 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,889 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,639 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,026 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,340 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,896 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,579 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,370 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,067 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,231 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,586 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,087 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,949 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,018 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,731 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,078 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,711 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,559 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,028 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,384 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,649 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,760 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,173 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,170 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,071 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,289 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,351 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,342 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,765 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,112 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,828 | under 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,707 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Charlee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 19,749 Americans recorded as Charlee, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 750 girls and 19 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Charlee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Charlee, and how old are they?
19,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 19,749 Americans ever recorded as Charlee. The median Charlee alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 12,443 people named Charlee (12,094 women and girls, 349 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,064 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 25 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 133 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 231 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 906 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,570 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 13,600 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Charlee born?
The states with the most babies named Charlee are Texas, Alabama and Ohio, with 20% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 70 | #468 | 0.7× |
| Alabama | 40 | #109 | 1.7× |
| Ohio | 37 | #298 | 1.1× |
| California | 36 | #816 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 32 | #348 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 31 | #575 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 29 | #264 | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 26 | #434 | 1.1× |
| New York | 25 | #661 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 24 | #365 | 0.9× |
Where Charlee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Charlee is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1914 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Charlee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 44,966 babies since 1880, Charlee is the most given (44% of them). In 2025 it was given to 769 of their 1,436 babies (54%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Charlee
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Charlee and names like it
- Compare Charlee and CharliBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCharlee peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Charlee since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Charlee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Charlee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.