Charli is a feminine form of Charlie, which is a diminutive of Charles. Charles goes back to the Germanic Karl, meaning ‘free man’.
Charli is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Charli isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Charli ranks 491. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 4 were named Charli. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Charli.
Charli is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Charli cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #331 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2021. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Charli, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Charli seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Charli was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
740 babies were named Charli in 2022 - that's 1 in 200,313 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Charli ranked 392 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Charli is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Charli and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Charli, you can simply say:
Cat
Hat
Apple
Rocket
Lion
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Charli
Charli
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
H
A
R
L
I
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
H
A
R
L
I
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Charli sounds like this:
