Name meaning & stats
Charly
Charly means “free man”. 3,789 US babies since 1940, peak 2022.
What it means
“free man”
Spelling of Charley
In US birth records
Peak year: 2022
3,789 US babies were named Charly between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Charly (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 9 Charleys spell it Charly
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2022)