Charlee
Charlee is ranked 398th among girls in 2024 (794 births). Its best rank was 272nd, in 2021.
- Rank in 2024
- #398down 40 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 7940.05% of girls
- Peak year
- 20191,171 births
- Best rank
- #272in 2021
- Since 1914
- 18,967people given the name
The story in the numbers
18,508 girls have been named Charlee in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 1,171 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 314 → 398).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 53%. It has spent 19 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 459 boys have also been given it, 2.4% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Charlee | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1920s | 5 | |
| 1930s | 22 | |
| 1940s | 86 | |
| 1950s | 107 | |
| 1960s | 55 | |
| 1970s | 178 | |
| 1980s | 447 | |
| 1990s | 749 | |
| 2000s | 2,177 | |
| 2010s | 9,820 | |
| 2020s | 4,857 |
In 2019, its biggest year
Charlee was the 280th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2019 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2019.
Names that rose and fell with Charlee
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Raelynpeak 2016
- Rosabellapeak 2020
- Hadleypeak 2014
- Jemmapeak 2018
- Scarlettepeak 2016
- Brinleypeak 2017
- Emrypeak 2017
- Jannatpeak 2018
Other spellings in the data
- Carly66,214 ever
- Carley17,269 ever
- Carlie16,245 ever
- Karlee13,541 ever
- Carlee13,184 ever
- Karlie11,400 ever
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.