Girl · Germanic, through Latin and French
Carrie
Say it: KAIR-ee
Meaning
A pet form of Caroline, the feminine of Carolus (Charles), from Germanic karl 'free man'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A top-ranked American name in the 1880s that stayed in steady use and peaked again in the 1970s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1880s
In the United States
- 267,209 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1888, about 1 in 108 girls
- 81 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Carry
Famous bearers
- Carrie Chapman Catt, American suffragist
- Carrie Fisher, American actress and writer
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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