Charly

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Charly: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Charly: Recorded since 1996, it reached #284 in 2003, and it stood at #4,991 in 2023.

3registrars recorded it
54times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#284highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2019

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#703
1997	#721
1998	#758
1999	#624
2000	#804
2001	#685
2002	#890
2003	#1056
2004	#1106
2005	#1045
2006	#1031
2007	#2410
2008	#1584
2009	#2019
2010	#2392
2011	#2025
2012	#3285
2013	#4739
2014	#4684
2015	#4736
2018	#4684
2019	#4686

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 26 of the 28 years from 1996 to 2023.

In 2007: #351 among girls in Northern Ireland, #2410 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2023 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #703 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1998–2007
Highest recorded position: #284 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2003 (recorded 1998–2007).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #4991 among boys in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Boys

Charly appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 180 births with the name.

Charly across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Charly's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1168 (1996)	#1055 (1998)	#4991 (2023)	26 of 28	180 (1996–2023)	17 (2005)
England and Wales · Girls	#703 (1996)	#624 (1999)	#4686 (2019)	22 of 24	410 (1996–2019)	41 (1999)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#351 (1998)	#284 (2003)	#351 (2007)	3 of 10	11 (1998–2007)	4 (2003)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#559 (2003)	#559 (2003)	#689 (2005)	2 of 3	7 (2003–2005)	4 (2003)

Charly by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Charly in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	36	4 of 10	9
2000sbusiest	77	10 of 10	8
2010s	58	9 of 10	6
2020s	9	3 of 10	3

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 8 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Charly appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #284 in Northern Ireland in 2003.

Charly's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2023	England and Wales	male	#4991	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2266	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3004	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3285	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2270	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2025	13	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2194	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2392	10	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2400	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2019	12	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2544	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1584	17	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2507	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2211	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1031	27	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2538	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1045	24	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1190	17	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1106	21	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1056	22	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1629	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#890	26	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2005	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#685	37	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#804	28	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1703	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#624	41	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1850	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#758	30	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1055	13	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#721	33	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1761	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#703	33	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1168	11	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#351	4	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	male	#305	3	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#284	4	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#351	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2023, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #284, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 41 births, registered in England and Wales in 1999.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1998, and 7 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Charlotte-Rose · #2042, 19y
Charmaine · #283, 47y
Charvi · #2509, 15y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Vanesa · #284, 23y
Nakita · #285, 26y
Aimie · #282, 26y
Atlanta · #282, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Mylo · #284, 29y
Vanesa · #284, 23y
Braiden · #283, 28y
Danyal · #283, 29y

Charly was ranked #284 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2003. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Charly and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Charly without appearing here.

Charly moved ahead of

Shannon Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4812 and #4812 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2266 and #4702.
Kim Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2544 and #2544 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #2400 and #3865.
Kristy Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4684 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #4684 and #5666.
Donna Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4684 and #3518 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #4686 and #5591.

Moved ahead of Charly

Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4739 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4684 and #1628.
Rory Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4736 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #4684 and #1977.
Gunnar Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2266 and #2728 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #4608 and #1935.
Matheo Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2266 and #2488 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #4608 and #2076.

Moved the opposite way to Charly

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Charly went from #1168 to #4991 while Albie went from #853 to #22.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Charly went from #1168 to #4991 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Charly went from #1168 to #4991 while Alfred went from #218 to #76.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Charly went from #1168 to #4991 while Archie went from #192 to #13.

Moved the same way as Charly

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Charly went from #1168 to #4991 and Aaron from #33 to #146.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Charly went from #1168 to #4991 and Adam from #16 to #41.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Charly went from #1168 to #4991 and Alan from #163 to #464.
Alexander Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Charly went from #1168 to #4991 and Alexander from #14 to #34.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #284 in Northern Ireland in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Charly

Charly at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Charly across 4 official records

Charly by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Charly across 4 official records

Charly by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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