Carey
Carey is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. Its best rank was 353rd, in 1957.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 180.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1957461 births
- Best rank
- #353in 1957
- Since 1880
- 29,607people given the name
The story in the numbers
16,865 boys have been named Carey in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 461 births.
The name has all but left use: 18 births in 2024, against 461 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1950s alone account for 22%. It has spent 113 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Carey is used for both sexes: 43% of its bearers are girls (12,742), most of them born around 1975.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Carey | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 144 | |
| 1890s | 151 | |
| 1900s | 157 | |
| 1910s | 520 | |
| 1920s | 705 | |
| 1930s | 787 | |
| 1940s | 1,559 | |
| 1950s | 3,649 | |
| 1960s | 3,288 | |
| 1970s | 2,766 | |
| 1980s | 1,604 | |
| 1990s | 887 | |
| 2000s | 351 | |
| 2010s | 237 | |
| 2020s | 60 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Carey was the 353rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1957 were Michael, James, David, Robert and John. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Carey
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Peterpeak 1957
- Nealpeak 1959
- Jaypeak 1960
- Kirbypeak 1957
- Karlpeak 1960
- Byronpeak 1964
- Danialpeak 1957
- Carypeak 1957
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.