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How popular is “Charley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Charley” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Charley” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Charley” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Charley” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Charley” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Charley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Charley” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 305 0.001513768 305 -100%
1881 266 0.00138047 266 -100%
1882 262 0.001182668 262 -100%
1883 254 0.001170798 254 -100%
1884 290 0.001191156 290 -100%
1885 285 0.001183289 285 -100%
1886 214 0.000838177 214 -100%
1887 221 0.000893319 221 -100%
1888 254 0.000848154 254 -100%
1889 199 0.00068871 199 -100%
1890 183 0.000607165 183 -100%
1891 193 0.000673241 193 -100%
1892 210 0.000628039 210 -100%
1893 191 0.000587289 191 -100%
1894 186 0.000549175 186 -100%
1895 178 0.000507094 178 -100%
1896 168 0.000469951 168 -100%
1897 156 0.000449623 156 -100%
1898 170 0.000445662 170 -100%
1899 120 0.000353738 120 -100%
1900 224 0.000497493 224 -100%
1901 165 0.000477138 7 158 -92%
1902 168 0.000434408 168 -100%
1903 126 0.000330535 126 -100%
1904 166 0.000411416 166 -100%
1905 168 0.000396299 168 -100%
1906 157 0.000366436 157 -100%
1907 164 0.000352393 164 -100%
1908 155 0.000317201 155 -100%
1909 152 0.000297326 5 147 -93%
1910 189 0.000319953 8 181 -92%
1911 160 0.00024834 160 -100%
1912 288 0.00029148 288 -100%
1913 278 0.000244479 278 -100%
1914 368 0.000259824 9 359 -95%
1915 426 0.000232479 12 414 -94%
1916 477 0.000246586 16 461 -93%
1917 469 0.000233711 12 457 -95%
1918 470 0.000216479 8 462 -97%
1919 484 0.000229357 14 470 -94%
1920 503 0.000222306 18 485 -93%
1921 472 0.000202184 16 456 -93%
1922 444 0.000193958 9 435 -96%
1923 432 0.000187624 11 421 -95%
1924 446 0.000187268 16 430 -93%
1925 372 0.000159431 22 350 -88%
1926 410 0.000178579 12 398 -94%
1927 379 0.000163407 14 365 -93%
1928 338 0.000149495 17 321 -90%
1929 341 0.000155554 18 323 -89%
1930 300 0.000134935 11 289 -93%
1931 271 0.000128779 13 258 -90%
1932 300 0.000142093 18 282 -88%
1933 255 0.000127535 9 246 -93%
1934 268 0.000129044 14 254 -90%
1935 259 0.000123929 19 240 -85%
1936 249 0.000119851 11 238 -91%
1937 201 0.000094337 13 188 -87%
1938 249 0.000112539 13 236 -90%
1939 202 0.000091675 10 192 -90%
1940 214 0.000092935 13 201 -88%
1941 221 0.000090707 13 208 -88%
1942 204 0.000074676 6 198 -94%
1943 227 0.000080423 19 208 -83%
1944 212 0.000078808 12 200 -89%
1945 164 0.000061819 8 156 -90%
1946 159 0.00004976 159 -100%
1947 198 0.000054965 10 188 -90%
1948 171 0.000049529 10 161 -88%
1949 184 0.000052801 11 173 -88%
1950 184 0.000052521 9 175 -90%
1951 154 0.000041805 10 144 -87%
1952 162 0.000042654 6 156 -93%
1953 144 0.000037367 6 138 -92%
1954 134 0.000033662 5 129 -93%
1955 147 0.000036612 7 140 -90%
1956 140 0.000033956 140 -100%
1957 134 0.000031888 9 125 -87%
1958 130 0.000031447 130 -100%
1959 137 0.000032949 137 -100%
1960 134 0.00003226 134 -100%
1961 99 0.0000239 99 -100%
1962 109 0.000027011 109 -100%
1963 149 0.000037643 149 -100%
1964 106 0.000027266 5 101 -91%
1965 93 0.000025652 93 -100%
1966 83 0.00002388 83 -100%
1967 76 0.000022387 76 -100%
1968 87 0.000025752 6 81 -86%
1969 96 0.000027623 96 -100%
1970 94 0.000026064 94 -100%
1971 90 0.000026221 6 84 -87%
1972 73 0.000023226 73 -100%
1973 66 0.000021877 66 -100%
1974 72 0.000023684 72 -100%
1975 74 0.000024508 9 65 -76%
1976 68 0.00002241 11 57 -68%
1977 89 0.000028018 14 75 -69%
1978 88 0.000027726 18 70 -59%
1979 88 0.00002645 17 71 -61%
1980 93 0.000027 15 78 -68%
1981 107 0.00003093 23 84 -57%
1982 89 0.000025371 17 72 -62%
1983 74 0.000021367 19 55 -49%
1984 90 0.000025797 26 64 -42%
1985 96 0.000026897 46 50 -4%
1986 117 0.000032892 54 63 -8%
1987 124 0.000034391 63 61 2%
1988 113 0.000030582 62 51 10%
1989 110 0.000028613 63 47 15%
1990 112 0.000028337 56 56 0%
1991 101 0.000025929 51 50 1%
1992 97 0.000025252 59 38 22%
1993 94 0.000024932 52 42 11%
1994 103 0.000027706 60 43 17%
1995 108 0.000029491 60 48 11%
1996 118 0.000032354 69 49 17%
1997 113 0.000031166 80 33 42%
1998 129 0.000035071 90 39 40%
1999 120 0.000032486 78 42 30%
2000 117 0.000030953 73 44 25%
2001 110 0.000029385 73 37 33%
2002 138 0.000036915 93 45 35%
2003 169 0.000044447 122 47 44%
2004 242 0.000063335 168 74 39%
2005 261 0.000067883 192 69 47%
2006 291 0.000073556 225 66 55%
2007 319 0.000079796 239 80 50%
2008 340 0.000086499 263 77 55%
2009 371 0.000097116 279 92 50%
2010 416 0.000112562 324 92 56%
2011 547 0.000149544 462 85 69%
2012 559 0.000152842 484 75 73%
2013 667 0.000182957 578 89 73%
2014 719 0.00019399 641 78 78%
2015 688 0.0001859 603 85 75%
2016 639 0.000174176 560 79 75%
2017 707 0.000197696 611 96 73%
2018 653 0.000185728 553 100 69%
2019 638 0.000183812 552 86 73%
2020 644 0.000192781 561 83 74%
2021 563 0.000166177 480 83 71%
2022 506 0.000149565 421 85 66%
2023 483 0.000145869 387 96 60%
2024 473 0.000142106 385 88 63%

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