Carrie
Carrie was given to 63 girls in 2025, #2,726 among girls’ names; 267,540 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 163,000 Americans named Carrie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 45 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carrie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Carrie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Carrie is “a diminutive of the female given name Caroline, also used as a formal given name.”
/ˈkæ.ɹi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Carrie?
#2,726 among girls’ names, 2025
Carrie fell from #1,685 in 2015 to #2,726 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 70.6 to 39.2 per million.
8,688 babies in 1977, the peak
Carrie peaked in 1977, when 8,688 babies were given it (8,661 girls, #28 among girls’ names). The 63 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,726 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 54 | #3,024 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,593 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 68 | #2,582 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 77 | #2,348 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 83 | #2,175 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 93 | #2,047 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 115 | #1,778 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 130 | #1,655 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 143 | #1,562 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 126 | #1,685 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 150 | #1,490 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 177 | #1,324 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 154 | #1,470 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 152 | #1,472 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 181 | #1,300 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 236 | #1,082 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 264 | #1,002 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 268 | #995 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 308 | #865 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 304 | #835 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 311 | #808 | 0.17 |
| 2003 | 345 | #740 | 0.19 |
| 2002 | 321 | #752 | 0.18 |
| 2001 | 430 | #588 | 0.24 |
| 2000 | 536 | #503 | 0.30 |
| 1999 | 582 | #457 | 0.33 |
| 1998 | 629 | #420 | 0.36 |
| 1997 | 744 | #368 | 0.43 |
| 1996 | 876 | #321 | 0.50 |
| 1995 | 897 | #310 | 0.51 |
| 1994 | 1,012 | #276 | 0.57 |
| 1993 | 1,117 | #248 | 0.62 |
| 1992 | 1,285 | #221 | 0.70 |
| 1991 | 1,465 | #204 | 0.78 |
| 1990 | 1,708 | #170 | 0.90 |
| 1989 | 1,957 | #148 | 1.1 |
| 1988 | 2,204 | #132 | 1.2 |
| 1987 | 2,390 | #119 | 1.4 |
| 1986 | 2,558 | #109 | 1.5 |
| 1985 | 2,942 | #96 | 1.7 |
| 1984 | 3,691 | #78 | 2.2 |
| 1983 | 4,296 | #65 | 2.6 |
| 1982 | 5,186 | #57 | 3.1 |
| 1981 | 5,094 | #55 | 3.1 |
| 1980 | 5,761 | #46 | 3.5 |
| 1979 | 6,354 | #41 | 4.0 |
| 1978 | 7,318 | #35 | 4.8 |
| 1977 | 8,661 | #28 | 5.6 |
| 1976 | 7,991 | #28 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 7,854 | #29 | 5.4 |
| 1974 | 6,436 | #42 | 4.4 |
| 1973 | 5,835 | #46 | 4.0 |
| 1972 | 5,421 | #53 | 3.6 |
| 1971 | 5,977 | #55 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 4,978 | #73 | 2.8 |
| 1969 | 3,888 | #94 | 2.3 |
| 1968 | 3,979 | #86 | 2.4 |
| 1967 | 3,195 | #107 | 1.9 |
| 1966 | 2,476 | #142 | 1.5 |
| 1965 | 2,484 | #152 | 1.4 |
| 1964 | 2,975 | #134 | 1.6 |
| 1963 | 2,817 | #143 | 1.5 |
| 1962 | 3,031 | #141 | 1.5 |
| 1961 | 3,178 | #139 | 1.6 |
| 1960 | 3,150 | #139 | 1.6 |
| 1959 | 2,960 | #145 | 1.5 |
| 1958 | 2,583 | #155 | 1.3 |
| 1957 | 2,156 | #175 | 1.1 |
| 1956 | 1,529 | #208 | 0.76 |
| 1955 | 1,211 | #233 | 0.62 |
| 1954 | 1,308 | #221 | 0.67 |
| 1953 | 1,282 | #224 | 0.68 |
| 1952 | 1,110 | #235 | 0.60 |
| 1951 | 1,065 | #238 | 0.59 |
| 1950 | 975 | #241 | 0.57 |
| 1949 | 1,107 | #222 | 0.65 |
| 1948 | 1,174 | #212 | 0.69 |
| 1947 | 1,170 | #218 | 0.66 |
| 1946 | 1,071 | #219 | 0.68 |
| 1945 | 985 | #199 | 0.75 |
| 1944 | 1,020 | #197 | 0.77 |
| 1943 | 1,136 | #192 | 0.81 |
| 1942 | 1,187 | #185 | 0.88 |
| 1941 | 1,030 | #183 | 0.85 |
| 1940 | 1,093 | #176 | 1.0 |
| 1939 | 1,076 | #176 | 1.0 |
| 1938 | 1,123 | #179 | 1.0 |
| 1937 | 1,176 | #172 | 1.1 |
| 1936 | 1,183 | #166 | 1.1 |
| 1935 | 1,278 | #158 | 1.2 |
| 1934 | 1,260 | #158 | 1.2 |
| 1933 | 1,261 | #150 | 1.3 |
| 1932 | 1,397 | #145 | 1.3 |
| 1931 | 1,306 | #148 | 1.2 |
| 1930 | 1,465 | #145 | 1.3 |
| 1929 | 1,510 | #148 | 1.4 |
| 1928 | 1,653 | #140 | 1.4 |
| 1927 | 1,789 | #139 | 1.5 |
| 1926 | 1,860 | #138 | 1.6 |
| 1925 | 2,025 | #134 | 1.7 |
| 1924 | 2,051 | #135 | 1.6 |
| 1923 | 1,930 | #134 | 1.6 |
| 1922 | 2,120 | #122 | 1.8 |
| 1921 | 2,081 | #126 | 1.7 |
| 1920 | 2,108 | #121 | 1.8 |
| 1919 | 2,180 | #111 | 1.9 |
| 1918 | 2,130 | #113 | 1.8 |
| 1917 | 2,073 | #109 | 1.9 |
| 1916 | 2,159 | #103 | 2.1 |
| 1915 | 1,968 | #103 | 2.0 |
| 1914 | 1,798 | #91 | 2.4 |
| 1913 | 1,517 | #90 | 2.4 |
| 1912 | 1,580 | #82 | 2.8 |
| 1911 | 1,281 | #78 | 3.1 |
| 1910 | 1,381 | #70 | 3.5 |
| 1909 | 1,276 | #66 | 3.7 |
| 1908 | 1,239 | #66 | 3.7 |
| 1907 | 1,283 | #61 | 4.0 |
| 1906 | 1,188 | #62 | 4.0 |
| 1905 | 1,288 | #58 | 4.4 |
| 1904 | 1,280 | #54 | 4.6 |
| 1903 | 1,252 | #52 | 4.8 |
| 1902 | 1,376 | #50 | 5.2 |
| 1901 | 1,247 | #48 | 5.2 |
| 1900 | 1,711 | #48 | 5.7 |
| 1899 | 1,346 | #46 | 5.8 |
| 1898 | 1,371 | #47 | 5.3 |
| 1897 | 1,365 | #46 | 5.8 |
| 1896 | 1,388 | #45 | 5.8 |
| 1895 | 1,463 | #42 | 6.3 |
| 1894 | 1,452 | #39 | 6.5 |
| 1893 | 1,451 | #36 | 6.8 |
| 1892 | 1,588 | #35 | 7.5 |
| 1891 | 1,342 | #36 | 7.2 |
| 1890 | 1,510 | #29 | 7.9 |
| 1889 | 1,547 | #27 | 8.7 |
| 1888 | 1,647 | #24 | 9.2 |
| 1887 | 1,344 | #23 | 9.2 |
| 1886 | 1,396 | #21 | 9.7 |
| 1885 | 1,283 | #22 | 9.6 |
| 1884 | 1,245 | #22 | 9.6 |
| 1883 | 1,108 | #21 | 9.9 |
| 1882 | 1,037 | #22 | 9.6 |
| 1881 | 958 | #20 | 10.4 |
| 1880 | 949 | #20 | 10.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carrie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carrie has been given almost only to girls: 1,190 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Carrie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carrie, and how old are they?
163,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 61% of the 267,540 Americans ever recorded as Carrie. The median Carrie alive today is 51 years old; half are between 45 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 157,744 people named Carrie (157,454 women and girls, 290 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 171,751 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6,100 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 28,900 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 83,100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 37,600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,340 |
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).
Where are babies named Carrie born?
The states with the most babies named Carrie are California, Texas and Ohio, with 17% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 15,644 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 11,876 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 11,387 | #1,049 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 10,313 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 10,194 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 10,095 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 10,043 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 9,820 | #1,429 | 0.7× |
| New York | 9,733 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| South Carolina | 9,113 | not ranked | 2.4× |
Where Carrie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Carrie is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Carrie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 309,659 babies since 1880, Carrie is the most given (86% of them). In 2025 it was given to 63 of their 107 babies (59%), again the most given.
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 Carrie
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 Carrie and names like it
- Compare Carrie and CariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCarrie peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carrie since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Carrie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Carrie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.