girls:
36.1k births since 1881
#725 (87th percentile)
boys:
179.7k births since 1880
#201 (96th percentile)
overall:
215.8k births since 1880
#364 (95th percentile)
The name Charlie is the #364 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 215,758 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #201 (95.6% percentile) for all time with 179,701 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #725 (87.3% percentile) for all time with 36,057 births since 1881.
Charlie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1881 for girls).
The name Charlie has been given predominantly to boys, with 83.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 48.3% of babies named Charlie were boys.
For boys, Charlie reached its peak popularity in 1890, achieving the 90.5% percentile (ranked #21) with 6,658 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 6,933 births per million (ranked 90.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1996, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Charlie ranks #172 for boys (81.2% percentile) with 1,142 births per million, which is 16.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Charlie reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 87.5% percentile (ranked #121) with 1,302 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 1,302 births per million (ranked 87.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1993, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Charlie is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #122 (87.2% percentile) with 1,278 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Charlie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Charlie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Charlie is pronounced as CHAHR-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like CH AA1 R L IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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