Is Charlie a male or female name?
Charlie is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in France at 54% and male usage in United States at 83%. 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
- 81%
- Sample size
- 411,223
- Confidence
- high
Charlie 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 | 83% | 219,878 | ssa |
| England and Wales GB | male | 93% | 124,972 | ons |
| France FR | female | 54% | 38,295 | insee |
| Canada CA | female | 60% | 18,652 | statcan |
| Ireland IE | male | 95% | 7,453 | cso |
| Switzerland CH | male | 54% | 1,147 | bfs |
| Norway NO | male | 100% | 363 | ssb |
| Poland PL | male | 89% | 340 | pesel |
| Austria AT | male | 80% | 123 | statat |
Attested in 20 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · DE · ES · FR · GB · IE · IN · LI · LU · MT · NL · NO · NZ · PL · SE · US
Charlie over time
In the United States, 1.2% of the babies named Charlie in the 1880s were girls, against 52.3% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born. In France, 0% of the babies named Charlie in the 1940s were girls, against 66.2% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1% | 7,174 | — | |
| 1890s | 2% | 7,445 | — | |
| 1900s | 4% | 8,275 | — | |
| 1910s | 5% | 20,972 | — | |
| 1920s | 7% | 27,007 | — | |
| 1930s | 7% | 20,646 | — | |
| 1940s | 6% | 19,471 | 0% | 205 |
| 1950s | 5% | 16,055 | 2% | 305 |
| 1960s | 3% | 10,388 | 0% | 180 |
| 1970s | 6% | 6,749 | 2% | 465 |
| 1980s | 13% | 6,270 | 13% | 1,685 |
| 1990s | 20% | 6,124 | 20% | 2,620 |
| 2000s | 24% | 11,072 | 38% | 3,260 |
| 2010s | 47% | 30,945 | 60% | 13,845 |
| 2020s | 52% | 21,285 | 66% | 15,625 |
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 Charlie with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
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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 Charlie
Is Charlie a male or female name?
Charlie is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in France at 54% and male usage in United States at 83%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Charlie 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 Charlie 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.