What is the name of the girl Charlie Brown has a crush on?

What is the name of the girl Charlie Brown has a crush on? The Little Red-Haired Girl. She is Charlie Brown’s long-standing, mostly unrequited love interest in Peanuts.

Charlie Brown first mentioned her in the comic strip on November 19, 1961. For most of the original strip, readers never saw her directly: she was discussed as the girl with red hair whom Charlie Brown noticed from a distance, especially during school, lunchtime, and Valentine’s Day storylines.

Her unseen status is part of the joke and the emotional pattern of Peanuts. Charlie Brown imagines speaking to her, worries that she does not know he exists, and repeatedly loses his nerve. In the 1967 television special You’re in Love, Charlie Brown, his infatuation drives the entire plot even though she is never shown on screen.

In later animated productions, she appears more directly and is sometimes called Heather or Heather Wold. Those adaptations should not be confused with the strip’s usual naming convention: in the comic, “The Little Red-Haired Girl” is the canonical label. Lucy, Sally, and Peppermint Patty are separate characters with different relationships to Charlie Brown.