Meaning not yet researched.
Carlee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 101 in 2025. Its best rank was #600 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #600 in 1997; #1,911 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carlee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,911 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #600.
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Carlee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 101 girls in 2025. Peak: #600 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 464 (2009).
In 2025, 101 US girls were named Carlee, making it the 1,911th most common girls’ name of the year, down 225 places from #1,686 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 121 girls named Carlee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #600, reached in 1997. The most girls given the name in a single year was 464, in 2009. For comparison, it was #760 in 2015 and #3,078 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carlee in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1902 with 5 babies. In all, 13,290 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 4,230 babies named Carlee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,825 US girls were named Carlee; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 317. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,914 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Carlee ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #580 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Carly (66,626 babies since 1880), Carley (17,328 babies since 1880), Carlie (16,311 babies since 1880) and Karlee (13,647 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 Carlee in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 5 | #580 | #222 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #692 | #596 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,095 | #788 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,162 | #333 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,237 | #530 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,497 | #682 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,938 | #906 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,942 | #874 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 101 | #1,911 | — | — |
| 2024 | 121 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 2023 | 117 | #1,752 | — | — |
| 2022 | 158 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 2021 | 157 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 2020 | 167 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 2019 | 184 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 2018 | 239 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 2017 | 264 | #985 | — | — |
| 2016 | 317 | #888 | — | — |
| 2015 | 371 | #760 | — | — |
| 2014 | 336 | #823 | — | — |
| 2013 | 367 | #741 | — | — |
| 2012 | 365 | #761 | — | — |
| 2011 | 369 | #747 | — | — |
| 2010 | 360 | #759 | — | — |
| 2009 | 464 | #641 | — | — |
| 2008 | 430 | #702 | 5 | #12,828 |
| 2007 | 445 | #666 | — | — |
| 2006 | 444 | #655 | — | — |
| 2005 | 459 | #614 | — | — |
| 2004 | 432 | #631 | — | — |
| 2003 | 385 | #680 | 5 | #11,136 |
| 2002 | 392 | #645 | — | — |
| 2001 | 362 | #688 | — | — |
| 2000 | 401 | #628 | 6 | #9,252 |
| 1999 | 362 | #646 | — | — |
| 1998 | 391 | #615 | — | — |
| 1997 | 377 | #600 | — | — |
| 1996 | 326 | #675 | — | — |
| 1995 | 302 | #699 | — | — |
| 1994 | 288 | #719 | — | — |
| 1993 | 294 | #723 | — | — |
| 1992 | 297 | #718 | — | — |
| 1991 | 222 | #885 | — | — |
| 1990 | 144 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1989 | 142 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 1988 | 113 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 1987 | 109 | #1,282 | — | — |
| 1986 | 94 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 1985 | 106 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 1984 | 92 | #1,323 | — | — |
| 1983 | 68 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 1982 | 89 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 1981 | 54 | #1,962 | — | — |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,158 | 6 | #5,613 |
| 1979 | 35 | #2,591 | — | — |
| 1978 | 39 | #2,311 | — | — |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,612 | — | — |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,102 | — | — |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,747 | — | — |
| 1974 | 39 | #2,101 | — | — |
| 1973 | 33 | #2,312 | — | — |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,736 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,690 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,876 | — | — |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,098 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,198 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,104 | — | — |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,918 | 5 | #4,024 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,345 | — | — |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,053 | — | — |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,047 | 5 | #4,121 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,802 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,920 | 7 | #3,397 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,485 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,630 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,484 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,180 | — | — |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,724 | 5 | #4,016 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,294 | 5 | #3,952 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,346 | 8 | #2,986 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,476 |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,981 | 7 | #3,137 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,059 | — | — |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,078 | 5 | #3,762 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,634 | — | — |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,987 | 6 | #3,366 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,819 | 7 | #3,120 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,445 | 5 | #3,589 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,938 | — | — |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,643 | 7 | #2,897 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,159 | 6 | #3,268 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,482 | 5 | #3,635 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,013 | 7 | #2,908 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,550 | 8 | #2,695 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,949 | — | — |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,604 | 7 | #2,906 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,490 | 5 | #3,599 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,755 | 6 | #3,195 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,762 | 8 | #2,746 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,203 | 5 | #3,745 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,421 | 6 | #3,325 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,826 | 11 | #2,340 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,784 | 9 | #2,684 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,095 | 15 | #1,979 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,210 | 7 | #3,277 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,515 | 9 | #2,882 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,320 | — | — |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,488 | 8 | #3,166 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,803 | 7 | #3,459 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,538 | 10 | #2,837 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,402 | 9 | #2,975 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,412 | 12 | #2,508 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,210 | 9 | #3,016 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,924 | 11 | #2,629 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,167 | — | — |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,401 | 9 | #2,912 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,439 | 6 | #3,615 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,065 | — | — |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,721 | 6 | #3,462 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,880 | — | — |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,410 | 7 | #2,077 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,968 | — | — |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,828 | — | — |
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).