Charly
Charly reached its high-water mark in 2014 at number 1,853, and has been recorded 3,833 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 3,249th. About 3,700 Charlys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Charly boys named Charly
Girls and boys called Charly
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 2,518 girls and 1,315 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 48 to 16.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 42 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,833
- Estimated living today
- 3,700
- Median age today
- 17
- Peak year
- 2014
- Best rank
- 1,853rd
- Rank in 2025
- 3,249th
- First recorded
- 1884
- Girls / boys
- 2,518 / 1,315
How old the living Charlys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,833 babies given the name since 1884, about 3,700 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 2,000 of them are children and 9 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Charlys
- Charly García (born 1951)Argentine singer-songwriter and musician
- Charly Gaul (1932–2005)professional cyclist
- Charly Musonda (born 1996)Belgian association football player
- Charly Mottet (born 1962)French cyclist
- Charly Loubet (1946–2023)French association football player
- Charly Grosskost (1944–2004)French road bicycle racer
People named Charly with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Charly is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Charly is most concentrated in Utah (20.0×), California (3.5×), Texas (3.2×), Florida (1.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2014
The most popular girls’ names the year Charly peaked:
Charly elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Charly | 25,960 | 60th |
| Belgium boys | Charly | 1,375 | 86th |
| France girls | Charly | 800 | 665th |
| England and Wales girls | Charly | 410 | 624th |
| Switzerland boys | Charly | 316 | 233rd |
| England and Wales boys | Charly | 180 | 1,190th |
| Scotland girls | Charly | 81 | 325th |
| Switzerland girls | Charly | 16 | 1,298th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Charly | 11 | 284th |
| Ireland girls | Charly | 7 | 559th |
| Belgium girls | Charly | 5 | 1,326th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Charly | 3 | 305th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Charly: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Charly | 70 | 0.006% | 583rd |
| German girls | Switzerland | Charly | 10 | 0.001% | 1,008th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Charly | 245 | 0.056% | 62nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Charly | 6 | 0.001% | 671st |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Charly | 1 | 0.002% | 194th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Charly is most concentrated in Fribourg, where 0.08% of children were given it – 54 of them.
Charly: rank by region
In 2025, Charly was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Charly | 498 | 11 |
| Wallonia | Charly | 41 | 64 |
| Brussels | Charly | 153 | 8 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Charly appears in the lists for Province of Walloon Brabant (21st), Province of Namur (32nd), Province of Liège (35th), Province of Luxembourg (46th), Province of Hainaut (72nd), Province of Flemish Brabant (112th) and Brussels-Capital Region (153rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Charly by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 14 | 443rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Charly among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Charly | — | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Charly against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.