Name meaning & stats
Charley
Charley means “free man”. 19,071 US babies since 1940, peak 2014.
What it means
“free man”
Form of Charlie
In US birth records
Peak year: 2014
19,071 US babies were named Charley between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Charley (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 54% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2014)