Carlye
Carlye was last recorded in 2017, when 6 babies were given it; 1,066 Americans have been recorded with it between 1944 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Carlye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 28 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carlye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carlye?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,488, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
52 babies in 1996, the peak
Carlye peaked in 1996, when 52 girls were given it, #2,450 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | #14,488 | 3.5 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,389 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,200 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,496 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,656 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,779 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,875 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,632 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,424 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,789 | 11.4 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 22 | #5,449 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,110 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,793 | 18.9 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,173 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,598 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,503 | 19.2 |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,702 | 26.4 |
| 1996 | 52 | #2,450 | 29.7 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,291 | 19.3 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,881 | 23.0 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,161 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,686 | 24.4 |
| 1991 | 38 | #2,984 | 20.3 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,439 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,791 | 14.1 |
| 1988 | 34 | #2,986 | 19.1 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,345 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,049 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,748 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,856 | 18.4 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,134 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,779 | 19.5 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,444 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,349 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,795 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,795 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,917 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,970 | 30.7 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,195 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,021 | 15.7 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,910 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,437 | 3.3 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,683 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,642 | 2.8 |
| 1963 | 8 | #4,929 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,780 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,208 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,061 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,109 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,367 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,400 | 2.8 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,647 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carlye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carlye has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carlye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carlye, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,066 Americans ever recorded as Carlye. The median Carlye alive today is 34 years old; half are between 28 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 1,078 people named Carlye (1,044 women and girls, 34 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,038 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 33 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 177 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 499 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 309 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 390,035 babies since 1880, Carlye is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 812 babies recorded by SSA was a Carlye (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Carlye
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 Carlye and names like it
- Compare Carlye and CarlaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCarlye peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carlye since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Carlye.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Carlye alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.