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Girl · Germanic, through English
Carly Say it: KAR-lee
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Meaning A pet form of Carla or Caroline, feminine forms of Charles (Germanic karl 'free man').
Certain scholars agree on this meaning.
Free
Popular in the US from the 1970s.
Its wave through time Most used in the 1990s
In the United States 0 0.5 1 1.5 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020 Peak 1995 per 1,000 babies of that sex 64,876 babies given this name since 1951 At its height in 1995, about 1 in 680 girls 469 babies in 2020 The family of the name Other spellings: Carley, Carlie, Karly
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