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Charli

#496 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Charlie

Charli has been given to 11,838 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #496 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 845 recorded.

Babies named Charli, 2025

1 in 5,550

Charli over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02505007501K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Charli: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Charlie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Charli means

Charli is a variant of Charlie.

Origin, language, and formation

Charli is used in English.

Charli is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charlie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,692 girls were recorded with the name Charli between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 845 in 2021; its best national rank was #365 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #419 in 2020 to #496 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #554 in 2015 to #496 in 2025.

In the United States, 146 boys were recorded with the name Charli between 1994 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2009; its best national rank was #5,362 in 2009.

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 Charli?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 5,550
597 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 2,690
0.04% of girls
Rank, 2025
#496
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,850 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Charli 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 5009%

Put another way: gather 3,850 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charli. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Charlis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Charli was born before 2017 — so the typical Charli is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,692
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.2% of all recorded uses (4,704).

Is Charli 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
+28
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−77
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+58
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.06×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
70.7%
Peak was 2021 (845)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#365
2021

Spellings of Charli

Charli is not the most common spelling — Carla is, with 27.3% against Charli's 2.1%.

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 Charli is used

Across 2016–2025, Charli was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 962 girls, against 1 in 2,176 across all states with data. It was least common in New Mexico (1 in 11,111).

9104 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 962
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 1,087
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 1,124
  4. 4Idaho1 in 1,149
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 1,190
  6. 6Missouri1 in 1,220
  7. 7Montana1 in 1,282
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 1,515

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, Charli is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 21% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Charli around the world

Where Charli 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
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1990–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2006–2019
    #336
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    2002–2023
    #625
    in 2023
  • France
    1998–2024
    #7,243
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,023
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1976–2013
    #97
    in 2013
  • New South Wales
    2006–2011
    #88
    in 2011

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, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Charli

People whose public names include Charli, 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.

Charli in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Charli. 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.

Charli by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#496
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 77
Best rank ever
#365
2021
Peak year
2021
845 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,692
Count in 2025
597

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,362
2009
Peak year
2009
17 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
146
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Charli

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

ChanelCharleyCharlesChanaCharisChantelChayaChantalChanteCharleeChasityCharlyChandlerCharlaCharityChaseChandaChavaCharlieKarliCharlineChanceChaneyChanell

Names with a curve like Charli

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

AlayahAzaleaJulietaEmoryLeightonEmmyZahraKoraMaryamAmirahSelahAlaya

Sibling names for Charli

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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