Charley
Charley is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 88 births. Its best rank was 59th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 880.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1920485 births
- Best rank
- #59in 1880
- Since 1880
- 34,872people given the name
The story in the numbers
23,885 boys have been named Charley in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 485 births.
The name has all but left use: 88 births in 2024, against 485 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 97 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 15 of them in the top 100.
Charley is used for both sexes: 32% of its bearers are girls (10,987), most of them born around 2014.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Charley | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,550 | |
| 1890s | 1,755 | |
| 1900s | 1,633 | |
| 1910s | 3,530 | |
| 1920s | 3,984 | |
| 1930s | 2,423 | |
| 1940s | 1,852 | |
| 1950s | 1,414 | |
| 1960s | 1,021 | |
| 1970s | 727 | |
| 1980s | 625 | |
| 1990s | 440 | |
| 2000s | 631 | |
| 2010s | 865 | |
| 2020s | 435 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Charley was the 249th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Charley
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Simpeak 1918
- Isompeak 1920
- Docpeak 2021
- Greenpeak 1927
- Edpeak 1959
- Washingtonpeak 1921
- Ligepeak 1915
- Ikepeak 1953
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.