Charlie
1.96k
Babies in 2024
-58%
10-year change
2012
Peak · 5.57k
-3%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Charlie
Charlie has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 1,956 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 58% on a decade earlier.
Charlie reached its peak in 2012, when 5,571 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #4 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 35% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 104,761 boys have been officially registered with the name Charlie in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 35,948 boys were registered with the name, starting from 4,642 in 2014 and ending at 1,956 in 2024.