Meaning not yet researched.
Carley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 63 in 2025. Its best rank was #376 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #376 in 1996; #2,725 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,725 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #376.
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Carley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 63 girls in 2025. Peak: #376 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 713 (1998).
In 2025, 63 US girls were named Carley, making it the 2,725th most common girls’ name of the year, up 332 places from #3,057 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 53 girls named Carley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #376, reached in 1996. The most girls given the name in a single year was 713, in 1998. For comparison, it was #1,106 in 2015 and #3,452 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carley in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 17,328 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 5,934 babies named Carley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,098 US girls were named Carley; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 171. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,512 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Carley ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #962 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), Carlie (16,311 babies since 1880), Karlee (13,647 babies since 1880) and Carlee (13,290 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Karlei, Karlea and Carleah are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Karlei (302), Karlea (248), Carleah (85), Carliee (16).
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 Carley 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 5 | #962 | #758 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,499 | #667 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,387 | #1,364 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,725 | — | — |
| 2024 | 53 | #3,057 | — | — |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,760 | — | — |
| 2022 | 86 | #2,196 | — | — |
| 2021 | 123 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 2020 | 108 | #1,822 | — | — |
| 2019 | 134 | #1,588 | — | — |
| 2018 | 151 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 2017 | 147 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 2016 | 171 | #1,372 | — | — |
| 2015 | 234 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 2014 | 237 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 2013 | 293 | #882 | — | — |
| 2012 | 272 | #940 | — | — |
| 2011 | 291 | #896 | — | — |
| 2010 | 360 | #760 | — | — |
| 2009 | 402 | #720 | — | — |
| 2008 | 489 | #632 | — | — |
| 2007 | 563 | #546 | — | — |
| 2006 | 533 | #552 | — | — |
| 2005 | 628 | #486 | — | — |
| 2004 | 567 | #512 | 8 | #8,254 |
| 2003 | 537 | #526 | — | — |
| 2002 | 572 | #488 | — | — |
| 2001 | 607 | #457 | — | — |
| 2000 | 687 | #411 | — | — |
| 1999 | 602 | #444 | — | — |
| 1998 | 713 | #389 | 5 | #9,833 |
| 1997 | 694 | #382 | — | — |
| 1996 | 703 | #376 | — | — |
| 1995 | 618 | #418 | 6 | #7,940 |
| 1994 | 609 | #411 | — | — |
| 1993 | 588 | #429 | — | — |
| 1992 | 616 | #409 | 6 | #7,549 |
| 1991 | 498 | #484 | — | — |
| 1990 | 271 | #761 | 5 | #8,296 |
| 1989 | 229 | #830 | 5 | #8,067 |
| 1988 | 258 | #726 | — | — |
| 1987 | 221 | #794 | 6 | #6,202 |
| 1986 | 209 | #802 | — | — |
| 1985 | 176 | #901 | — | — |
| 1984 | 180 | #851 | — | — |
| 1983 | 158 | #938 | — | — |
| 1982 | 149 | #989 | — | — |
| 1981 | 112 | #1,183 | 8 | #4,567 |
| 1980 | 84 | #1,448 | — | — |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 1978 | 65 | #1,639 | 6 | #5,145 |
| 1977 | 69 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 1976 | 71 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 1975 | 41 | #2,100 | — | — |
| 1974 | 61 | #1,564 | — | — |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,134 | — | — |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,293 | 5 | #5,086 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,693 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,720 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,106 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,639 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,881 | — | — |
| 1963 | 8 | #4,929 | — | — |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,939 | — | — |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,323 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,208 | 5 | #4,028 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,582 | 8 | #3,048 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,942 | 8 | #3,003 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,295 | 6 | #3,554 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,723 | 5 | #3,896 |
| 1953 | 9 | #3,986 | 7 | #3,177 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #3,812 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,503 | 8 | #2,869 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,452 | 7 | #3,067 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,021 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,734 | 15 | #1,953 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,734 | — | — |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,709 | 7 | #2,949 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,636 | 8 | #2,590 |
| 1944 | — | — | 7 | #2,898 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,535 | 9 | #2,587 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,216 | 9 | #2,552 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,051 | 9 | #2,511 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,442 | 14 | #1,911 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,134 | 6 | #3,163 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,966 | 15 | #1,830 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,467 | 6 | #3,220 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,888 | 6 | #3,196 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,811 | 7 | #3,000 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,877 | 7 | #3,015 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,174 | 11 | #2,230 |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,151 | — | — |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,445 | 7 | #3,133 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,322 | 8 | #3,057 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,457 | — | — |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,265 | 10 | #2,686 |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,108 | 11 | #2,549 |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,628 | 8 | #3,167 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,399 | 7 | #3,460 |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,817 | 11 | #2,678 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,698 | 9 | #2,976 |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,905 | 5 | #4,397 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,227 | 7 | #3,572 |
| 1920 | — | — | 15 | #2,150 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,248 |
| 1917 | — | — | 9 | #2,766 |
| 1916 | — | — | 8 | #2,963 |
| 1915 | — | — | 9 | #2,659 |
| 1914 | — | — | 9 | #2,300 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #2,886 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,601 |
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).