Charley — #1829 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Charley

The Social Security Administration has registered 23,885 babies named Charley between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Charley currently holds the #1829 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 485 babies received it in a single year. Charley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 10,987 additional births since 1901.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Charley performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 3,984 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Charley shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,722 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Oklahoma and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Charley in 33 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Charley in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 23,885 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.