Carey — #5223 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Carey

The Social Security Administration has registered 16,865 babies named Carey between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Carey currently holds the #5223 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1957, when 461 babies received it in a single year. Carey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 12,742 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carey performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 3,649 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Carey shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,214 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Carey in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carey in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 16,865 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.