Carmie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Carmie

The Social Security Administration has registered 368 babies named Carmie between 1904 and 1978, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carmie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1978. The name reached its historical peak in 1956, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Carmie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 60 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carmie performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 78 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Carmie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Carmie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carmie 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 368 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.