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Girlie

Girls' name

Possibly young person (boy or girl), through girlie

Girlie has been given to 462 babies in the U.S. since 1891. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Girlie, 1978

1 in 529,000

Girlie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girlie: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly young person (boy or girl), through girlie

English

What Girlie means

Girlie belongs to the name family reached through Girlie → girlie. Its meaning is “young person (boy or girl)”.

Origin, language, and formation

Girlie is used in Cebuano and Tagalog. Its origins include English.

Girlie comes through English girlie.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include girlie.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Cebuano, Girlie is pronounced /ˈɡiɾli/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 462 girls were recorded with the name Girlie between 1891 and 1978. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1917; its best national rank was #1,125 in 1904.

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 Girlie?

Girlie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1978, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1978
1 in 529,000
6 of 3,173,639 births
Among girls only
1 in 255,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1978
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
366,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Girlie 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 1978 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 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 366,634 children born in 1978 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Girlie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Girlies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Girlie was born before 1920 — so the typical Girlie is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
31.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
13
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1920s — 31.0% of all recorded uses (143).

Is Girlie 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (22)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,125
1904

Spellings of Girlie

Girlie is not the most common spelling — Lillie is, with 27.8% against Girlie's 0.08%.

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 Girlie is used

Across 1910–2025, Girlie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 727,260 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

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. Girlie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Girlie around the world

Where Girlie 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.

  • South Australia
    1953–1953
    #449
    in 1953

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Girlie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,125
1904
Peak year
1917
22 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
1978
All-time count
462
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Girlie

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

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Sibling names for Girlie

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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