Charlie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ,9 Pet form of Charles, also of Charlotte
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Charlie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 639(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.6K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 563 (measured from records)
- 1 in 639 (inferred from the name graph)
≈350,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
,9 Pet form of Charles, also of Charlotte.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Charlie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈350,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Charlie | 58 |
| US United States | #473 | 104,901 | 1 in 3.2K | 83K | Charlie | 563 |
| PH Philippines | #319 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Charlie | 137 |
| GB United Kingdom | #287 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 2K | Charlie | 340 |
| SE Sweden | #689 | 15,963 | 1 in 639 | 16K | Charlie | 96 |
| AU Australia | #359 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 972 | Charlie | 227 |
| IE Ireland | #222 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 316 | Charlie | 110 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Charlie is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Charlie Chaplin, britischer
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
1 (m.) English and Scottish: pet form of CHARLES . 2 (f.) English: modern pet form of CHARLOTTE . Top
as a word
NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the letter C.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Charlie Chaplinb. 1889GBEnglish actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)
- Charlie Parkerb. 1920USAmerican jazz saxophonist (1920–1955)
- Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelob. 1926ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician (1926–2008)
- Charlie Kaufmanb. 1958USAmerican filmmaker and novelist
- Charlie Weberb. 1978USAmerican actor
- Charlie Coxb. 1982GBBritish actor (born 1982)
- Charlie Puthb. 1991USAmerican singer, songwriter, and record producer
- Charlie Heatonb. 1994GBBritish actor
- Charlie Tahanb. 1998USAmerican actor
- Charlie Plummerb. 1999USAmerican actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 115 sources across 62 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 83K | #533 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 22K | #533 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16K | #278 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 9.4K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 2.5K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 2.2K | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024) | 2024 | 2K | #17 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2023 | 972 | — |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2019 | 316 | #10 |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2025 | 280 | #12 |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2025 | 280 | #12 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2022 | 255 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Charlie a male or female name?
- Charlie is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Charlie?
- In the etymology graph, Carlos, Charles and Carol are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Charlie mean, and where does it come from?
- ,9 Pet form of Charles, also of Charlotte. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How common is the name Charlie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 104,901 people named Charlie in 2020, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Charlie compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Charlie is the 222nd most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Charlie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 354 thousand people named Charlie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled charlie.
- Where is Charlie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Charlie is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 639 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Charlie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/charlieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Charlie” — the 222nd most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.