Charley
#1,826 in the US in 2025
Charley in the United States
Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been steady.
Charley is given to both sexes: 23,974 male and 11,347 female births on record. The two curves rarely move together, which is why they are drawn separately rather than summed.
SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Charley in New Zealand
Charley never reached 10 births in a single year in New Zealand, so it does not appear in the DIA file. That is a reporting floor, not a zero — the name may still have been registered here, just never ten times in one year.
SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Decade by decade in the US
| Year | Rank | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | #58 | 305 |
| 1890 | #93 | 183 |
| 1900 | #103 | 224 |
| 1910 | #167 | 181 |
| 1920 | #249 | 485 |
| 1930 | #323 | 289 |
| 1940 | #404 | 201 |
| 1950 | #506 | 175 |
| 1960 | #676 | 134 |
| 1970 | #832 | 94 |
| 1980 | #1,022 | 78 |
| 1990 | #1,516 | 56 |
| 2000 | #2,222 | 44 |
| 2010 | #1,677 | 92 |
| 2020 | #1,798 | 83 |
Where in the United States
The states that registered Charley most often since 1880. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.
| State | Births |
|---|---|
| Texas | 1,732 |
| Oklahoma | 1,405 |
| Louisiana | 1,117 |
| Arkansas | 1,050 |
| Mississippi | 1,044 |
| Missouri | 811 |
| California | 793 |
| Kentucky | 691 |
| Georgia | 632 |
| Alabama | 553 |
How these figures are worked out
- Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site.
- Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
- The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
- Each country hides small numbers — the US below 5 births a year, New Zealand below 10. A gap in a line is "below the floor", never "nobody".
SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026