Meaning and history
Diminutive or feminine form of Charles, Charlie is also borne by the British comic actor Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) and by Charlie Brown, the main character in Charles Schulz’s comic strip Peanuts.
Charlie rose from #176 to #145 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1919, with 2,891 births.