Carry — unisex name

What the Data Says About Carry

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,359 babies named Carry between 1881 and 2001, spanning 121 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carry currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2001. The name reached its historical peak in 1975, when 37 babies received it in a single year. Carry is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 300 additional births since 1894.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carry performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 232 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Carry shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 17 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Carry in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carry 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 1,359 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.