Carly — #873 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Carly

The Social Security Administration has registered 66,214 babies named Carly between 1951 and 2024, spanning 74 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carly currently holds the #873 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 2,585 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carly performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 22,790 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Carly shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6,423 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Carly in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carly 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 66,214 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.