# Carrie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/carrie/  
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 | /ˈkæ.ɹi/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 267,540 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,190 / 266,350 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 964, 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 | 152 | 1,472 |
| 2012 | 154 | 1,470 |
| 2013 | 177 | 1,324 |
| 2014 | 150 | 1,490 |
| 2015 | 126 | 1,685 |
| 2016 | 143 | 1,562 |
| 2017 | 130 | 1,655 |
| 2018 | 115 | 1,778 |
| 2019 | 93 | 2,047 |
| 2020 | 83 | 2,175 |
| 2021 | 77 | 2,348 |
| 2022 | 68 | 2,582 |
| 2023 | 68 | 2,593 |
| 2024 | 54 | 3,024 |
| 2025 | 63 | 2,726 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 22 | 2,075 |
| 1976 | 25 | 1,939 |
| 1977 | 27 | 1,864 |
| 1978 | 27 | 1,873 |
| 1979 | 19 | 2,479 |
| 1980 | 29 | 1,913 |
| 1981 | 18 | 2,584 |
| 1982 | 19 | 2,523 |
| 1983 | 21 | 2,346 |
| 1984 | 19 | 2,542 |
| 1985 | 7 | 5,222 |
| 1986 | 13 | 3,468 |
| 1987 | 13 | 3,554 |
| 1988 | 5 | 7,442 |
| 1989 | 11 | 4,560 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 22 | 1,374 |
| 2012 | 25 | 1,297 |
| 2013 | 25 | 1,324 |
| 2014 | 17 | 1,702 |
| 2015 | 11 | 2,328 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,367 |
| 2017 | 28 | 1,219 |
| 2018 | 18 | 1,649 |
| 2019 | 14 | 1,940 |
| 2020 | 7 | 3,117 |
| 2021 | 11 | 2,341 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,970 |
| 2023 | 6 | 3,598 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4,192 |
| 2025 | 11 | 2,440 |

## In other languages

- Spanish: Caro

## People named Carrie

- Carrie Fisher, American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
- Carrie Underwood, American singer and actor (born 1983)
- Carrie Chapman Catt, American social reformer, suffragist (1859-1947)
- Carrie Coon, American actress
- Carrie Snodgress, American actress (1945-2004)
- Carrie Preston, American actress
- Carrie Brownstein, American musician and actress
- Carrie Ann Inaba, American television personality, dancer, choreographer, actress, and singer
- Carrie Johnson, British press officer, wife of Boris Johnson
- Carrie Hamilton, American actress, singer, playwright (1963-2002)
- Carrie Matilda Derick, Canadian botanist and geneticist (1862-1941)
- Carrie Prejean, American conservative activist and former model

## 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.