Charlye
Charlye was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 365 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Charlye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Charlye?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,422, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 2017, the peak
Charlye peaked in 2017, when 28 girls were given it, #4,830 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,422 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,329 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,704 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,248 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,301 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,830 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,672 | 8.5 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,513 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,139 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,690 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #15,362 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,874 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,353 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,511 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 23 | #5,981 | 12.2 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,993 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,885 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,850 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,029 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,665 | 3.8 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,492 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,295 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,841 | 2.8 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,084 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,132 | 2.8 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,491 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,309 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,527 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,937 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,344 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,419 | 2.8 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,742 | 5.3 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,905 | 5.4 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,820 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,932 | 5.6 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,144 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,707 | 6.4 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,078 | 4.1 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,238 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Charlye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Charlye has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Charlye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Charlye, and how old are they?
An estimated 314 Americans named Charlye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 387 people named Charlye (343 women and girls, 44 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 301 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 44,966 babies since 1880, Charlye is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,436 babies recorded by SSA was a Charlye (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Charlye
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 Charlye and names like it
- Compare Charlye and CharleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCharlye peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Charlye since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Charlye.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Charlye alive today were born 2013-2025.
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