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Boy's nameOrigin: internationalIn Israel: hardly given today

CharlieIn Hebrew: צ׳רלי · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel

Romanization: chárli

Charlie (Hebrew: צ׳רלי) is a boy's name of international origin. 144 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Its peak year was 1959, with 7 babies.

People in Israel
144
born 1949–2024
Babies in 2024
—
not in the list
Peak year
1959
7 babies
USA, 2025
2,460
rank #145

Writing and saying Charlie

In Hebrew letters the name is צ׳רלי, read right to left. Charlie is the Latin spelling recorded in Wikidata; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "chárli" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).

Meaning and origin

  • a transliteration of the English unisex given name Charlie

Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.

Charlie by year: Israel and abroad

How many boys out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).

Charlie: rate per 10,000, 1950–2025

per 10,000 babies of the same sex

Charlie in English-speaking countries

Charlie in each official list: latest year, count, rank and peak
Country / regionYearBabiesRankPeak
United States20252,460#1451919 (2,891)
United Kingdom20251,969#182012 (6,097)
England and Wales20251,679#222012 (5,571)
Scotland2025167#162015 (342)
Northern Ireland2025123#42012 (228)
Ireland2025225#142012 (432)
British Columbia202355#442022 (67)
Alberta202579#422025 (79)
Quebec202574#932022 (105)
New South Wales2025280#122011 (389)

Counts for boys. The Hebrew page for Charlie has every year and the other spellings.

Related Israeli names

Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.

Questions about Charlie

How do you write Charlie in Hebrew?

Charlie is written צ׳רלי in Hebrew. Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "chárli".

How many people in Israel are named Charlie?

144 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name צ׳רלי: 7 women and 137 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.

Is Charlie a boy's or a girl's name?

In Israel it is almost always a boy's name: 95.1% of the people named צ׳רלי are men.

What does the name Charlie mean?

English Wiktionary describes it as: "a transliteration of the English unisex given name Charlie"

Is Charlie used outside Israel?

The name Charlie appears in the official baby name lists of English-speaking countries. In the United States 2,460 boys were given it in 2025 (#145), per the Social Security Administration. In the UK 1,969 in 2025 (ONS, NRS and NISRA combined).

Sources

Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.

Abroad

Counts are copied as published. We only merged accented spellings (Zoë = Zoe) and computed ranks and rates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence – Alberta.