Carrie
Carrie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 53 births. Its best rank was 20th, in 1880–1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 530.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19778,661 births
- Best rank
- #20first in 1880
- Since 1880
- 267,476people given the name
The story in the numbers
266,286 girls have been named Carrie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1977, with 8,661 births — 0.56% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 53 births in 2024, against 8,661 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1965, and the 1970s alone account for 25%. It has spent 128 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 53 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,190 boys have also been given it, 0.44% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Carrie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 12,514 | |
| 1890s | 14,276 | |
| 1900s | 13,140 | |
| 1910s | 18,067 | |
| 1920s | 19,127 | |
| 1930s | 12,525 | |
| 1940s | 10,974 | |
| 1950s | 16,179 | |
| 1960s | 31,171 | |
| 1970s | 66,827 | |
| 1980s | 36,081 | |
| 1990s | 10,314 | |
| 2000s | 3,322 | |
| 2010s | 1,421 | |
| 2020s | 348 |
In 1977, its biggest year
Carrie was the 28th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1977 were Jennifer, Melissa, Amy, Jessica and Heather. See all of 1977.
Names that rose and fell with Carrie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mandapeak 1975
- Christenapeak 1975
- Mindapeak 1951
- Kizziepeak 1977
- Deliapeak 1957
- Geniepeak 1982
- Alidapeak 1917
- Minervapeak 1955
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.