Charlie — #176 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Charlie

The Social Security Administration has registered 181,806 babies named Charlie between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Charlie currently holds the #176 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1919, when 2,891 babies received it in a single year. Charlie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 38,190 additional births since 1881.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Charlie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 25,176 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Charlie shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 19,427 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Charlie in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Charlie 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 181,806 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.