# Carley (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/carley/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 17,328 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 410 / 16,918 (98% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 389, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 291 | 896 |
| 2012 | 272 | 940 |
| 2013 | 293 | 882 |
| 2014 | 237 | 1,080 |
| 2015 | 234 | 1,106 |
| 2016 | 171 | 1,372 |
| 2017 | 147 | 1,508 |
| 2018 | 151 | 1,453 |
| 2019 | 134 | 1,588 |
| 2020 | 108 | 1,822 |
| 2021 | 123 | 1,682 |
| 2022 | 86 | 2,196 |
| 2023 | 62 | 2,760 |
| 2024 | 53 | 3,057 |
| 2025 | 63 | 2,725 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 6 | 3,554 |
| 1956 | 8 | 3,003 |
| 1957 | 8 | 3,048 |
| 1958 | 5 | 4,028 |
| 1959 | 7 | 3,323 |
| 1972 | 5 | 5,086 |
| 1978 | 6 | 5,145 |
| 1981 | 8 | 4,567 |
| 1987 | 6 | 6,202 |
| 1989 | 5 | 8,067 |
| 1990 | 5 | 8,296 |
| 1992 | 6 | 7,549 |
| 1995 | 6 | 7,940 |
| 1998 | 5 | 9,833 |
| 2004 | 8 | 8,254 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 11 | 1,983 |
| 2007 | 22 | 1,234 |
| 2008 | 16 | 1,641 |
| 2009 | 18 | 1,526 |
| 2010 | 16 | 1,731 |
| 2011 | 12 | 2,150 |
| 2012 | 11 | 2,338 |
| 2013 | 9 | 2,649 |
| 2014 | 8 | 2,862 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,615 |
| 2016 | 5 | 4,096 |
| 2017 | 7 | 3,229 |
| 2018 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2023 | 3 | 5,687 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.