Cary — #3590 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Cary

The Social Security Administration has registered 24,472 babies named Cary between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cary currently holds the #3590 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1957, when 788 babies received it in a single year. Cary is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5,323 additional births since 1882.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cary performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 7,047 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Cary shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,530 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Cary in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cary 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 24,472 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.