Carlee
Carlee was given to 101 girls in 2025, #1,911 among girls’ names; 13,290 Americans have been recorded with it since 1902 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,500 Americans named Carlee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 14 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carlee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Carlee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Carlee is “a female given name from the Germanic languages.”
A spelling variant of Carly.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Carlee?
#1,911 among girls’ names, 2025
Carlee fell from #760 in 2015 to #1,911 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.21 to 0.06 per 1,000.
464 babies in 2009, the peak
Carlee peaked in 2009, when 464 girls were given it, #641 among girls’ names. The 101 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 101 | #1,911 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 121 | #1,686 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 117 | #1,752 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 158 | #1,424 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 157 | #1,392 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 167 | #1,321 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 184 | #1,260 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 239 | #1,066 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 264 | #985 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 317 | #888 | 0.18 |
Every recorded year (115)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 371 | #760 | 0.21 |
| 2014 | 336 | #823 | 0.19 |
| 2013 | 367 | #741 | 0.21 |
| 2012 | 365 | #761 | 0.21 |
| 2011 | 369 | #747 | 0.21 |
| 2010 | 360 | #759 | 0.20 |
| 2009 | 464 | #641 | 0.25 |
| 2008 | 430 | #702 | 0.23 |
| 2007 | 445 | #666 | 0.23 |
| 2006 | 444 | #655 | 0.23 |
| 2005 | 459 | #614 | 0.25 |
| 2004 | 432 | #631 | 0.24 |
| 2003 | 385 | #680 | 0.21 |
| 2002 | 392 | #645 | 0.22 |
| 2001 | 362 | #688 | 0.20 |
| 2000 | 401 | #628 | 0.22 |
| 1999 | 362 | #646 | 0.20 |
| 1998 | 391 | #615 | 0.22 |
| 1997 | 377 | #600 | 0.22 |
| 1996 | 326 | #675 | 0.19 |
| 1995 | 302 | #698 | 0.17 |
| 1994 | 288 | #718 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 294 | #722 | 0.16 |
| 1992 | 297 | #718 | 0.16 |
| 1991 | 222 | #883 | 0.12 |
| 1990 | 144 | #1,185 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 142 | #1,154 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 113 | #1,286 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 109 | #1,281 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 94 | #1,369 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 106 | #1,269 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 92 | #1,323 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 68 | #1,630 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 89 | #1,376 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 54 | #1,962 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,158 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 35 | #2,591 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 39 | #2,311 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,612 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,102 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,747 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 39 | #2,101 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 33 | #2,312 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,736 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,688 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,875 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,097 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,197 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,103 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,917 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,344 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,052 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,046 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,801 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,919 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,484 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,629 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,483 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,178 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,723 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,292 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,345 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,979 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,058 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,077 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,633 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,986 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,817 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,444 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,937 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,642 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,158 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,480 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,011 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,548 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,947 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,603 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,488 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,753 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,760 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,202 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,420 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,825 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,782 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,093 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,209 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,514 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,318 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,487 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,802 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,537 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,401 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,410 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,210 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,924 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,167 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,400 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,438 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,063 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,720 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,878 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,408 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,234 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,968 | 0.02 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,827 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carlee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 13,290 Americans recorded as Carlee, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 101 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Carlee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carlee, and how old are they?
12,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 13,290 Americans ever recorded as Carlee. The median Carlee alive today is 22 years old; half are between 14 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 10,909 people named Carlee (10,778 women and girls, 131 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,872 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 73 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 165 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 350 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,670 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,380 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,880 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Carlee born?
The states with the most babies named Carlee are Texas, Georgia and Florida, with 47% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,938 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,237 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,942 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,095 | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 6 | #692 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,162 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,497 | 0.9× |
| Arkansas | 5 | #580 | 1.4× |
Where Carlee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Carlee is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Carlee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 400,455 babies since 1880, Carlee is the seventh most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 101 of their 897 babies (11%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Carlee
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Carlee and names like it
- Compare Carlee and CarlaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCarlee peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carlee since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Carlee: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Carlee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Carlee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.