Girls' name · peaked in 2020
Charlee name popularity since 1925
19,744 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Charlee (97.6% girls, 2.4% boys). Half of them were born in 2016 or earlier, so the typical Charlee is about 10 years old in 2026. Charlee peaked in 2020 as the #275 name for girls, and it ranked #417 in 2025.
Key facts
- US babies since 1925
- 19,744
- Named Charlee, 1925–2025
- In 2025
- #417
- for girls in 2025 (750 babies)
- Girls / boys
- 97.6% girls
- 19,263 girls · 481 boys
- Most popular in
- Utah
- 2.96× its national share
Peak year is the year Charlee made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.
Charlee births per year, 1925–2025
The biggest year by count was 2019. Measured as a share of all babies, Charlee peaked in 2020.
- Fastest rise: Between 2007 and 2012, Charlee became 3.3× more common, from 1 in 7,020 baby girls to 1 in 2,140.
- Steepest fall: Between 2020 and 2025, its share of baby girls fell by 34%, from 1 in 1,420 to 1 in 2,140.
Shaded on the chart. Both compare Charlee's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Charlee.
Decade by decade
Babies named Charlee in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).
| Decade | Girls | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925–29 | 5 | 0 | – |
| 1930s | 22 | 0 | Under 5 |
| 1940s | 86 | 0 | #3,175 |
| 1950s | 107 | 0 | #5,951 |
| 1960s | 55 | 0 | Under 5 |
| 1970s | 178 | 0 | #4,390 |
| 1980s | 447 | 11 | #2,229 |
| 1990s | 749 | 29 | #1,865 |
| 2000s | 2,177 | 57 | #1,093 |
| 2010s | 9,824 | 195 | #282 |
| 2020–25 | 5,613 | 189 | #417 |
Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.
Generation fingerprint
69.4% of babies named Charlee from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen Alpha years (2013–2025). The full split by generation:
Where Charlee is most popular
The index compares Charlee's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Charlee.
| State | Index | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| Utah | 2.96× | 431 |
| Tennessee | 1.90× | 685 |
| Alabama | 1.77× | 537 |
| Oklahoma | 1.77× | 395 |
| Kentucky | 1.70× | 486 |
Other spellings
Spellings that sound like Charlee and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.
| Spelling | Girls | Peak year |
|---|---|---|
| Charlee (this page) | 19,263 | 2020 |
| Charli | 11,692 | 2021 |
| Charly | 2,518 | 2014 |
Names with a similar story
Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Charlee's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Charlee.
Names from the same era
Other common names that peaked within two years of Charlee (2020).
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data