Carlye — girls' name

What the Data Says About Carlye

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,066 babies named Carlye between 1944 and 2017, spanning 74 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carlye currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 52 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carlye performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 381 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Carlye shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 13 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Missouri and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Carlye in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carlye 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 1,066 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.