Is Charley a male or female name?
Charley is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in England and Wales at 74% and male usage in United States at 69%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- male
- Probability
- 60%
- Sample size
- 44,979
- Confidence
- high
Charley by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | male | 69% | 34,861 | ssa |
| England and Wales GB | female | 74% | 7,469 | ons |
| France FR | male | 90% | 1,245 | insee |
| Canada CA | female | 87% | 1,084 | statcan |
| Ireland IE | female | 83% | 286 | cso |
| Poland PL | male | 57% | 7 | pesel |
| Austria AT | female | 100% | 3 | statat |
Attested in 62 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
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Charley over time
In the United States, 0% of the babies named Charley in the 1880s were girls, against 83.7% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born. In France, 9.9% of the babies named Charley in the 1980s were girls, against 10% in the 2000s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 0% | 2,550 | — | |
| 1890s | 0% | 1,755 | — | |
| 1900s | 1% | 1,645 | — | |
| 1910s | 2% | 3,609 | — | |
| 1920s | 4% | 4,137 | — | |
| 1930s | 5% | 2,554 | — | |
| 1940s | 5% | 1,953 | — | |
| 1950s | 4% | 1,465 | — | |
| 1960s | 1% | 1,032 | — | |
| 1970s | 9% | 802 | — | |
| 1980s | 38% | 1,013 | 10% | 355 |
| 1990s | 60% | 1,094 | 14% | 445 |
| 2000s | 73% | 2,357 | 10% | 100 |
| 2010s | 86% | 6,229 | — | |
| 2020s | 84% | 2,666 | — |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Charley with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Charley&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Charley
Is Charley a male or female name?
Charley is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in England and Wales at 74% and male usage in United States at 69%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Charley change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Charley identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.