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Charlee

#417 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Charlie

Charlee has been given to 19,749 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #417 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 1,172 recorded.

Babies named Charlee, 2025

1 in 4,420

Charlee over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Charlee: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Charlie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Charlee means

Charlee is a variant of Charlie.

Origin, language, and formation

Charlee is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charlie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 19,268 girls were recorded with the name Charlee between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,172 in 2019; its best national rank was #272 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #275 in 2020 to #417 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #282 in 2015 to #417 in 2025.

In the United States, 481 boys were recorded with the name Charlee between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2021; its best national rank was #3,191 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,279 in 2020 to #5,070 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,089 in 2015 to #5,070 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Charlee?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 4,420
750 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 2,140
0.05% of girls
Rank, 2025
#417
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,065 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Charlee sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1002%
School of 50011%

Put another way: gather 3,065 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charlee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Charlees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Charlee was born before 2016 — so the typical Charlee is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
51.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
19,150
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 51.0% of all recorded uses (9,824).

Is Charlee rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−19
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−142
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−135
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.66×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.0%
Peak was 2019 (1,172)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#272
2021

Spellings of Charlee

Charlee is not the most common spelling — Charlene is, with 24.9% against Charlee's 3.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Charlee is used

Across 2016–2025, Charlee was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 385 girls, against 1 in 1,350 across all states with data. It was least common in District of Columbia (1 in 5,556).

18260 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 385
  2. 2Montana1 in 463
  3. 3South Dakota1 in 500
  4. 4Alabama1 in 571
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 581
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 585
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 585
  8. 8Idaho1 in 629

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Charlee is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 54% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Charlee around the world

Where Charlee ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    1987–2014
    #681
    in 2014
  • Northern Ireland
    1999–2016
    #440
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2010–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • France
    2008–2022
    #4,616
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #520
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1989–2013
    #106
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Charlee

People whose public names include Charlee, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Charlee in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Charlee. Linked forms have their own page here.

CharleyCharlie

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Charlee by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#417
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 142
Best rank ever
#272
2021
Peak year
2019
1,172 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
19,268
Count in 2025
750

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,070
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,791
Best rank ever
#3,191
2021
Peak year
2021
37 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
481
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Charlee

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ChasityChantelCharlesCharleyCharityCharlieChanelChantalCharliChandraChandlerBrynleeRosaleeChayaPaisleeChanaNataleeCharlineChanellCharlizeEmmaleeChanelleCharissaChaylee

Names with a curve like Charlee

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Charlee, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JourneyRaelynKamilaFinleyGracelynBrynleeAdelynnArabellaAdelynBrinleyNylahBriella

Sibling names for Charlee

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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