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Charlcie vs Charlotte

American parents have registered 454,204 Charlottes since 1880, against 531 Charlcies. Charlotte is still ahead, with 13,408 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Charlcie against Charlotte, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Charlcie Charlotte

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Charlotte has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1895, when Charlcie had 6 and Charlotte had 472.

Side by side

  Charlcie Charlotte
Total US births 531454,204
Most in one year 2213,408
Babies in 2025 under 513,408
Estimated living today 110323,000
Median age today 8113
Peak year 19292025
Best rank 1,704th girls2nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2nd
First recorded 18951880
Girls / boys 531 / 0453,433 / 771

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Charlcies alive today are over 81; half the Charlottes are over 13. That is 68 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Charlcie and Charlotte.