Meaning not yet researched.
Carey: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #353 in 1957.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #353 in 1957; #6,519 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carey in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,519 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1957, at #353.
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Carey: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 boys in 2025. Peak: #353 in 1957 · most boys in one year: 461 (1957).
In 2025, 13 US boys were named Carey, making it the 6,519th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,244 places from #5,275 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 18 boys named Carey in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #353, reached in 1957. That year also had the most boys given the name: 461. For comparison, it was #4,312 in 2015 and #409 in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Carey in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #304, reached in 1975. That year also had the most girls given the name: 756. For comparison, it was #12,054 in 2015 and #1,116 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carey in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 19 babies with the name. In all, 29,621 US babies have been given the name, 43% of them girls and 57% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 8,371 babies named Carey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 160 US boys were named Carey; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 131,390 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Cary (29,827 babies since 1880), Cari (12,870 babies since 1880), Carie (4,399 babies since 1880) and Carri (3,466 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Carey in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 13 | #6,519 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,736 | 18 | #5,275 |
| 2023 | — | — | 12 | #6,965 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,502 | 11 | #7,345 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,453 | 7 | #9,899 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,434 | 12 | #6,699 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,699 | 18 | #5,192 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,966 | 23 | #4,384 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,442 | 22 | #4,492 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,690 | 24 | #4,212 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,054 | 23 | #4,312 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,737 | 21 | #4,560 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,208 | 24 | #4,077 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,850 | 28 | #3,728 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,637 | 29 | #3,616 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,973 | 26 | #3,910 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,863 | 28 | #3,735 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,812 | 27 | #3,841 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,754 | 39 | #2,980 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,946 | 32 | #3,316 |
| 2005 | 26 | #4,983 | 27 | #3,541 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,604 | 33 | #3,030 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,444 | 26 | #3,454 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,406 | 49 | #2,158 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,643 | 50 | #2,087 |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,411 | 40 | #2,385 |
| 1999 | 55 | #2,572 | 51 | #1,904 |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,655 | 45 | #2,070 |
| 1997 | 54 | #2,428 | 66 | #1,553 |
| 1996 | 63 | #2,154 | 73 | #1,423 |
| 1995 | 73 | #1,904 | 73 | #1,381 |
| 1994 | 96 | #1,586 | 81 | #1,297 |
| 1993 | 88 | #1,700 | 102 | #1,108 |
| 1992 | 100 | #1,550 | 124 | #967 |
| 1991 | 120 | #1,359 | 131 | #920 |
| 1990 | 96 | #1,579 | 141 | #860 |
| 1989 | 131 | #1,225 | 142 | #840 |
| 1988 | 121 | #1,230 | 167 | #732 |
| 1987 | 154 | #1,009 | 140 | #778 |
| 1986 | 153 | #1,005 | 158 | #720 |
| 1985 | 175 | #905 | 169 | #683 |
| 1984 | 201 | #796 | 156 | #699 |
| 1983 | 221 | #738 | 168 | #659 |
| 1982 | 255 | #686 | 171 | #668 |
| 1981 | 273 | #646 | 165 | #672 |
| 1980 | 342 | #545 | 168 | #665 |
| 1979 | 407 | #497 | 198 | #609 |
| 1978 | 534 | #391 | 224 | #560 |
| 1977 | 601 | #363 | 253 | #522 |
| 1976 | 693 | #323 | 256 | #501 |
| 1975 | 756 | #304 | 302 | #464 |
| 1974 | 659 | #335 | 298 | #464 |
| 1973 | 560 | #374 | 279 | #467 |
| 1972 | 481 | #410 | 282 | #467 |
| 1971 | 505 | #419 | 350 | #436 |
| 1970 | 409 | #490 | 324 | #453 |
| 1969 | 373 | #504 | 344 | #424 |
| 1968 | 323 | #531 | 336 | #418 |
| 1967 | 256 | #594 | 324 | #423 |
| 1966 | 164 | #766 | 308 | #434 |
| 1965 | 150 | #812 | 283 | #463 |
| 1964 | 152 | #844 | 332 | #441 |
| 1963 | 161 | #820 | 336 | #435 |
| 1962 | 183 | #767 | 325 | #440 |
| 1961 | 160 | #831 | 331 | #440 |
| 1960 | 137 | #897 | 370 | #411 |
| 1959 | 137 | #888 | 437 | #378 |
| 1958 | 151 | #825 | 399 | #392 |
| 1957 | 140 | #861 | 461 | #353 |
| 1956 | 158 | #786 | 366 | #394 |
| 1955 | 136 | #829 | 363 | #378 |
| 1954 | 136 | #806 | 403 | #360 |
| 1953 | 107 | #907 | 320 | #393 |
| 1952 | 81 | #1,047 | 338 | #370 |
| 1951 | 67 | #1,144 | 290 | #398 |
| 1950 | 68 | #1,116 | 272 | #409 |
| 1949 | 45 | #1,377 | 196 | #470 |
| 1948 | 52 | #1,269 | 232 | #439 |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,796 | 226 | #444 |
| 1946 | 31 | #1,591 | 173 | #487 |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,162 | 132 | #520 |
| 1944 | 30 | #1,491 | 138 | #515 |
| 1943 | 28 | #1,598 | 130 | #551 |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,499 | 132 | #531 |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,702 | 104 | #579 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,318 | 96 | #603 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,219 | 85 | #642 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,953 | 102 | #579 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,331 | 86 | #632 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,745 | 81 | #644 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,791 | 80 | #664 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,202 | 93 | #617 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,173 | 61 | #784 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,518 | 76 | #709 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,122 | 58 | #825 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,708 | 65 | #803 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,431 | 81 | #685 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,263 | 60 | #855 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,573 | 70 | #787 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,587 | 79 | #716 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,504 | 65 | #823 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,323 | 66 | #839 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,377 | 68 | #816 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,067 | 85 | #710 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,966 | 68 | #835 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,286 | 63 | #854 |
| 1919 | 18 | #1,997 | 77 | #721 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,922 | 58 | #871 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,575 | 80 | #668 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,269 | 64 | #763 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,406 | 59 | #785 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,913 | 68 | #609 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,048 | 39 | #748 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,409 | 36 | #715 |
| 1911 | — | — | 14 | #900 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,182 | 25 | #570 |
| 1909 | — | — | 13 | #809 |
| 1908 | — | — | 17 | #635 |
| 1907 | — | — | 11 | #825 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,759 | 15 | #619 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,561 | 19 | #529 |
| 1904 | — | — | 17 | #542 |
| 1903 | — | — | 16 | #553 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,826 | 12 | #656 |
| 1901 | — | — | 11 | #641 |
| 1900 | — | — | 26 | #447 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,423 | 13 | #554 |
| 1898 | — | — | 22 | #422 |
| 1897 | — | — | 20 | #423 |
| 1896 | — | — | 15 | #539 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,628 | 17 | #491 |
| 1894 | — | — | 12 | #599 |
| 1893 | — | — | 11 | #622 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,302 | 19 | #446 |
| 1891 | — | — | 11 | #569 |
| 1890 | — | — | 11 | #609 |
| 1889 | — | — | 15 | #484 |
| 1888 | — | — | 13 | #559 |
| 1887 | — | — | 16 | #424 |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #989 |
| 1885 | — | — | 13 | #524 |
| 1884 | — | — | 24 | #361 |
| 1883 | — | — | 19 | #404 |
| 1882 | — | — | 18 | #430 |
| 1881 | — | — | 8 | #661 |
| 1880 | 6 | #756 | 13 | #506 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).