Baby name
RISING BOY · GERMANIC
🇩🇪, 🇦🇹, 🇫🇷 Charly
/ʃaʁ.li/
Meaning
“Free man, strong”
From Germanic roots meaning 'free man' or 'strong', it is often a variant of Charles or Charlotte.
How it ages.
Charly feels current and increasingly familiar while still standing apart from the most common choices.
The cultural moment.
Charly is seeing a moderate rise in France and has become more familiar in recent years.