Is Charly a male or female name?
Charly is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 66% and male usage in France at 97%. 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
- 87%
- Sample size
- 33,172
- Confidence
- high
Charly 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| France FR | male | 97% | 26,760 | insee |
| United States US | female | 66% | 3,760 | ssa |
| Canada CA | male | 60% | 1,099 | statcan |
| Switzerland CH | male | 100% | 799 | bfs |
| England and Wales GB | female | 73% | 685 | ons |
| Austria AT | male | 96% | 46 | statat |
| Poland PL | male | 88% | 16 | pesel |
Attested in 13 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 · ES · FR · GB · IE · LU · PL · SE · US
Charly over time
In the United States, 81.2% of the babies named Charly in the 1980s were girls, against 69.5% in the 2020s. In France, 0% of the babies named Charly in the 1930s were girls, against 5.5% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | — | 0% | 160 | |
| 1940s | — | 0% | 290 | |
| 1950s | — | 0% | 535 | |
| 1960s | — | 0% | 575 | |
| 1970s | — | 0% | 960 | |
| 1980s | 81% | 431 | 0% | 2,805 |
| 1990s | 62% | 531 | 1% | 5,425 |
| 2000s | 55% | 982 | 3% | 3,760 |
| 2010s | 73% | 1,099 | 5% | 6,545 |
| 2020s | 70% | 570 | 6% | 5,565 |
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 Charly 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=Charly&country=FR" \
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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 Charly
Is Charly a male or female name?
Charly is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 66% and male usage in France at 97%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Charly 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 Charly 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.