Carlie
Carlie was given to 65 girls in 2025, #2,657 among girls’ names; 16,311 Americans have been recorded with it since 1883 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,600 Americans named Carlie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 18 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carlie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Carlie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Carlie is “a female given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Carly.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Carlie?
#2,657 among girls’ names, 2025
Carlie fell from #1,045 in 2015 to #2,657 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.14 to 0.04 per 1,000.
593 babies in 2004, the peak
Carlie peaked in 2004, when 593 babies were given it (586 girls, #502 among girls’ names). The 65 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,657 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 71 | #2,513 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,523 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 76 | #2,411 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 102 | #1,929 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 144 | #1,486 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 165 | #1,367 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 192 | #1,219 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 220 | #1,130 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 250 | #1,048 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (133)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 254 | #1,045 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 277 | #965 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 296 | #872 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 294 | #896 | 0.17 |
| 2011 | 313 | #842 | 0.18 |
| 2010 | 353 | #781 | 0.20 |
| 2009 | 405 | #712 | 0.22 |
| 2008 | 455 | #671 | 0.24 |
| 2007 | 482 | #619 | 0.25 |
| 2006 | 490 | #594 | 0.26 |
| 2005 | 534 | #541 | 0.29 |
| 2004 | 586 | #502 | 0.32 |
| 2003 | 495 | #558 | 0.27 |
| 2002 | 471 | #563 | 0.26 |
| 2001 | 515 | #520 | 0.29 |
| 2000 | 540 | #501 | 0.30 |
| 1999 | 501 | #512 | 0.28 |
| 1998 | 549 | #469 | 0.31 |
| 1997 | 491 | #503 | 0.28 |
| 1996 | 486 | #492 | 0.28 |
| 1995 | 453 | #531 | 0.26 |
| 1994 | 431 | #558 | 0.24 |
| 1993 | 415 | #574 | 0.23 |
| 1992 | 374 | #607 | 0.20 |
| 1991 | 348 | #640 | 0.19 |
| 1990 | 206 | #923 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 185 | #952 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 178 | #946 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 141 | #1,083 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 144 | #1,049 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 162 | #958 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 161 | #923 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 129 | #1,071 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 114 | #1,193 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 102 | #1,262 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 72 | #1,608 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 61 | #1,771 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 60 | #1,729 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 53 | #1,881 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 44 | #1,998 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 44 | #1,992 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 56 | #1,648 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,135 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,191 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,838 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,259 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,719 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,198 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,521 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,682 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,887 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,053 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,293 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,802 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,287 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,478 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,849 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,964 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #4,969 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,942 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,402 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,898 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,942 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,054 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,708 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,928 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,987 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,361 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,617 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,881 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,216 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,266 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,920 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,553 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,446 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,047 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,881 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,590 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,275 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,215 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,764 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,069 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,381 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,783 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,945 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,946 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,404 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,573 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,083 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,388 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,150 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,753 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,185 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,298 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,136 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,168 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 29 | #1,454 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,575 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 17 | #1,955 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,932 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,752 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,183 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,185 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,176 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,970 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,160 | 0.01 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,404 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,317 | 0.03 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,925 | 0.02 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,460 | 0.03 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,714 | 0.02 |
| 1900 | 10 | #1,237 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,424 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 12 | #1,012 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,064 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,146 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,195 | 0.03 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,487 | 0.02 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,233 | 0.03 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,358 | 0.03 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,310 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,050 | 0.04 |
| 1883 | 6 | #836 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carlie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 16,311 Americans recorded as Carlie, 92% are girls and 8% boys. In 2025 it went to 65 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 Carlie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carlie, and how old are they?
14,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 16,311 Americans ever recorded as Carlie. The median Carlie alive today is 25 years old; half are between 18 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 13,476 people named Carlie (13,029 women and girls, 447 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,340 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 149 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 337 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 574 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,980 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,410 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,170 |
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 Carlie born?
The states with the most babies named Carlie are California, Tennessee and Texas, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #2,310 | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,006 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,388 | 0.7× |
Where Carlie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Carlie is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 1.4 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 Carlie 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, Carlie is the fifth most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 65 of their 897 babies (7.2%), the sixth 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 Carlie
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 Carlie and names like it
- Compare Carlie and CarlaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCarlie peaked in 2004.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carlie since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Carlie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Carlie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.