How popular is “Charlie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Charlie” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Charlie” 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 “Charlie” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Charlie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Charlie” 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	730	0.003623117		730	-100%
1881	673	0.003492693	5	668	-99%
1882	759	0.003426126	6	753	-98%
1883	653	0.003009966	10	643	-97%
1884	753	0.003092898	7	746	-98%
1885	714	0.002964451	9	705	-97%
1886	734	0.002874869	11	723	-97%
1887	653	0.002639536	11	642	-97%
1888	809	0.002701403	13	796	-97%
1889	696	0.002408755	11	685	-97%
1890	809	0.002684132	12	797	-97%
1891	723	0.002522037	16	707	-96%
1892	780	0.002332717	19	761	-95%
1893	701	0.002155444	10	691	-97%
1894	721	0.00212879	17	704	-95%
1895	784	0.002233491	17	767	-96%
1896	728	0.002036455	14	714	-96%
1897	737	0.002124183	23	714	-94%
1898	751	0.001968778	23	728	-94%
1899	711	0.002095898	33	678	-91%
1900	1151	0.002556312	27	1124	-95%
1901	682	0.00197217	28	654	-92%
1902	796	0.002058268	35	761	-91%
1903	776	0.002035677	37	739	-90%
1904	767	0.001900938	28	739	-93%
1905	840	0.001981497	39	801	-91%
1906	772	0.00180184	28	744	-93%
1907	836	0.001796343	43	793	-90%
1908	783	0.001602377	43	740	-89%
1909	872	0.00170571	39	833	-91%
1910	1172	0.00198405	65	1107	-89%
1911	1022	0.001586272	44	978	-91%
1912	1525	0.001543425	79	1446	-90%
1913	1694	0.001489741	76	1618	-91%
1914	2007	0.001417029	101	1906	-90%
1915	2319	0.001265535	126	2193	-89%
1916	2535	0.001310472	119	2416	-91%
1917	2687	0.001338981	151	2536	-89%
1918	2921	0.001345394	178	2743	-88%
1919	3090	0.001464285	199	2891	-87%
1920	2982	0.001317928	197	2785	-87%
1921	2713	0.001162131	139	2574	-90%
1922	2836	0.001238885	181	2655	-87%
1923	2654	0.00115267	183	2471	-86%
1924	2682	0.001126129	175	2507	-87%
1925	2760	0.001182873	182	2578	-87%
1926	2646	0.001152487	200	2446	-85%
1927	2713	0.00116972	201	2512	-85%
1928	2651	0.001172522	188	2463	-86%
1929	2370	0.001081125	185	2185	-84%
1930	2292	0.001030906	179	2113	-84%
1931	2135	0.001014547	160	1975	-85%
1932	2288	0.001083697	161	2127	-86%
1933	2139	0.001069796	161	1978	-85%
1934	2027	0.000976013	135	1892	-87%
1935	2054	0.000982822	128	1926	-88%
1936	1967	0.000946776	130	1837	-87%
1937	1918	0.000900186	161	1757	-83%
1938	1941	0.000877259	140	1801	-86%
1939	1884	0.000855026	136	1748	-86%
1940	1896	0.000823387	134	1762	-86%
1941	1867	0.000766287	111	1756	-88%
1942	1987	0.000727354	118	1869	-88%
1943	1982	0.0007022	147	1835	-85%
1944	2013	0.000748305	132	1881	-87%
1945	1836	0.00069207	111	1725	-88%
1946	1900	0.000594622	113	1787	-88%
1947	2031	0.000563803	117	1914	-88%
1948	2015	0.000583632	113	1902	-89%
1949	1948	0.000559003	115	1833	-88%
1950	1780	0.000508084	102	1678	-89%
1951	1788	0.000485376	102	1686	-89%
1952	1747	0.000459978	84	1663	-90%
1953	1614	0.000418824	80	1534	-90%
1954	1543	0.000387619	83	1460	-89%
1955	1507	0.000375335	71	1436	-91%
1956	1604	0.000389034	74	1530	-91%
1957	1525	0.00036291	72	1453	-91%
1958	1482	0.000358499	55	1427	-93%
1959	1466	0.000352574	51	1415	-93%
1960	1292	0.000311039	45	1247	-93%
1961	1268	0.00030611	44	1224	-93%
1962	1264	0.00031323	41	1223	-94%
1963	1206	0.000304684	43	1163	-93%
1964	1103	0.000283722	33	1070	-94%
1965	993	0.000273897	29	964	-94%
1966	867	0.000249449	31	836	-93%
1967	836	0.000246252	32	804	-92%
1968	765	0.000226438	25	740	-93%
1969	796	0.000229043	24	772	-94%
1970	790	0.000219048	21	769	-95%
1971	708	0.000206272	12	696	-97%
1972	651	0.000207127	10	641	-97%
1973	632	0.000209487	20	612	-94%
1974	572	0.000188158	19	553	-93%
1975	590	0.000195403	25	565	-92%
1976	625	0.000205978	59	566	-81%
1977	690	0.000217221	81	609	-77%
1978	722	0.000227483	62	660	-83%
1979	768	0.000230839	71	697	-82%
1980	667	0.000193642	71	596	-79%
1981	676	0.000195411	61	615	-82%
1982	574	0.000163628	57	517	-80%
1983	599	0.000172954	43	556	-86%
1984	615	0.000176281	74	541	-76%
1985	627	0.000175674	79	548	-75%
1986	645	0.000181329	108	537	-67%
1987	642	0.000178056	109	533	-66%
1988	623	0.000168604	121	502	-61%
1989	608	0.00015815	86	522	-72%
1990	657	0.000166225	120	537	-63%
1991	649	0.000166613	131	518	-60%
1992	579	0.000150731	92	487	-68%
1993	545	0.000144552	104	441	-62%
1994	558	0.000150095	111	447	-60%
1995	628	0.000171484	118	510	-62%
1996	596	0.000163413	137	459	-54%
1997	605	0.000166862	135	470	-55%
1998	627	0.000170463	132	495	-58%
1999	684	0.000185172	136	548	-60%
2000	657	0.000173814	129	528	-61%
2001	691	0.000184592	138	553	-60%
2002	769	0.000205709	170	599	-56%
2003	884	0.00023249	175	709	-60%
2004	1035	0.000270877	223	812	-57%
2005	1191	0.000309765	257	934	-57%
2006	1286	0.00032506	355	931	-45%
2007	1323	0.000330942	367	956	-45%
2008	1495	0.000380343	405	1090	-46%
2009	1745	0.000456785	490	1255	-44%
2010	2102	0.000568763	671	1431	-36%
2011	2377	0.000649846	856	1521	-28%
2012	2582	0.000705972	1045	1537	-19%
2013	2892	0.00079327	1327	1565	-8%
2014	3135	0.00084584	1439	1696	-8%
2015	3236	0.000874379	1562	1674	-3%
2016	3478	0.00094802	1767	1711	2%
2017	3706	0.001036297	1913	1793	3%
2018	3580	0.001018232	1850	1730	3%
2019	3918	0.001128803	2086	1832	6%
2020	4110	0.001230326	2239	1871	9%
2021	4230	0.001248543	2222	2008	5%
2022	4447	0.001314461	2340	2107	5%
2023	4343	0.001311611	2244	2099	3%
2024	4193	0.001259726	2109	2084	1%

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