Carnie — boys' name

What the Data Says About Carnie

The Social Security Administration has registered 90 babies named Carnie between 1915 and 1939, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Carnie currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1939. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Carnie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 22 additional births since 1919.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carnie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 51 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Carnie shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carnie 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 90 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.