Carmie
Carmie was last recorded in 1978, when 5 babies were given it; 428 Americans have been recorded with it between 1904 and 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carmie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carmie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,944, in 1978; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1919, the peak
Carmie peaked in 1919, when 19 babies were given it (11 girls, #2,838 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 5 | #9,944 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,247 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,161 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,720 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,523 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,332 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,360 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,914 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,676 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,217 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 5 | #6,365 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,953 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,723 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,352 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,937 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,723 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 9 | #3,987 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,171 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,429 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,800 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,042 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,084 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,164 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,855 | under 5 | |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,495 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,924 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,215 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,140 | 5 | #3,621 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,951 | under 5 | |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,904 | 7 | #3,047 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,922 | under 5 | |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,108 | 5 | #4,075 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,663 | under 5 | |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,201 | 5 | #4,237 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,899 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,712 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,437 | 6 | #3,938 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,069 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,186 | 5 | #4,398 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,788 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,471 | 7 | #3,531 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,838 | 8 | #3,151 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,924 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,773 | under 5 | |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,595 | under 5 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 7 | #3,133 | |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,289 | under 5 | |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,574 | under 5 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 5 | #2,603 | |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,235 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,982 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,927 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Carmie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 428 Americans recorded as Carmie, 86% are girls and 14% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Carmie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carmie, and how old are they?
An estimated 153 Americans named Carmie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (36% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 63 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 337 people named Carmie (270 women and girls, 67 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 185 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,115 babies since 1880, Carmie is the second most given (8.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 24 babies recorded by SSA was a Carmie (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 Carmie
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 Carmie and names like it
- Compare Carmie and CarmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sCarmie peaked in 1919.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carmie since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Carmie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Carmie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.