Charli
Charli was given to 597 girls in 2025, #496 among girls’ names; 11,838 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,700 Americans named Charli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Charli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Charli mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Charli is “a female given name of modern usage, variant of Charlie.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Charli?
#496 among girls’ names, 2025
Charli rose from #554 in 2015 to #496 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.31 to 0.37 per 1,000.
850 babies in 2021, the peak
Charli peaked in 2021, when 850 babies were given it (845 girls, #365 among girls’ names). The 597 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 597 | #496 | 0.37 |
| 2024 | 588 | #524 | 0.36 |
| 2023 | 712 | #436 | 0.44 |
| 2022 | 743 | #427 | 0.45 |
| 2021 | 845 | #365 | 0.51 |
| 2020 | 741 | #419 | 0.46 |
| 2019 | 598 | #520 | 0.36 |
| 2018 | 621 | #500 | 0.37 |
| 2017 | 529 | #571 | 0.31 |
| 2016 | 477 | #626 | 0.27 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 561 | #554 | 0.31 |
| 2014 | 473 | #614 | 0.26 |
| 2013 | 394 | #709 | 0.22 |
| 2012 | 386 | #719 | 0.22 |
| 2011 | 381 | #724 | 0.22 |
| 2010 | 284 | #915 | 0.16 |
| 2009 | 236 | #1,083 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 236 | #1,101 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 208 | #1,205 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 204 | #1,189 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 147 | #1,446 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 127 | #1,555 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 117 | #1,644 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 72 | #2,270 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 74 | #2,194 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 68 | #2,279 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 57 | #2,501 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 81 | #1,886 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 84 | #1,783 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 59 | #2,255 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,157 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 73 | #1,927 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,417 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 65 | #2,078 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 84 | #1,724 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 65 | #2,050 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 88 | #1,586 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 73 | #1,736 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 93 | #1,417 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 69 | #1,693 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,367 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 51 | #1,994 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 28 | #2,991 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,666 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,026 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,336 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,555 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,407 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,389 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,709 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,272 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Charli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 11,838 Americans recorded as Charli, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 597 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Charli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Charli, and how old are they?
11,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 11,838 Americans ever recorded as Charli. The median Charli alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 7,053 people named Charli (6,808 women and girls, 245 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,710 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 101 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 930 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,830 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,870 |
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 Charli born?
The states with the most babies named Charli are Texas, California and Florida, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 57 | #555 | 0.9× |
| California | 35 | #837 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 33 | #545 | 0.7× |
| New York | 31 | #534 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 29 | #395 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 26 | #300 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 24 | #475 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | #444 | 0.8× |
| Oklahoma | 19 | #208 | 1.5× |
| Virginia | 19 | #417 | 0.6× |
Where Charli is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Charli is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1975 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 Charli 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 44,733 babies since 1880, Charli is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 597 of their 1,442 babies (41%), again the second 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 Charli
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 Charli and names like it
- Compare Charli and CharleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCharli peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Charli since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Charli.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Charli alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.