Boy
Charlie
As a boy's name, Charlie traces back to Germanic, where it is understood to mean "Free man". It peaked in the 1920s and has aged gracefully since then. In the current registry, it is a name most people have come across. The registry counts around 176,436 U.S. births under this name going back to 1900.
GermanicDiminutive of Charles
GermanicFree man
Births by decade
1900s
8,275
1910s
20,972
1920s
27,006
1930s
20,643
1940s
19,469
1950s
16,052
1960s
10,389
1970s
6,745
1980s
6,267
1990s
6,120
2000s
11,069
2010s
23,429
Peaked in the 1920s · 176,436 total U.S. births since 1900