Meaning not yet researched.
Carly: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 248 in 2025. Its best rank was #122 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #122 in 1995; #1,009 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carly in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,009 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #122.
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Carly: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 248 girls in 2025. Peak: #122 in 1995 · most girls in one year: 2,585 (1995).
In 2025, 248 US girls were named Carly, making it the 1,009th most common girls’ name of the year, down 134 places from #875 in 2024. That is 60 fewer than the 308 girls named Carly in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #122, reached in 1995. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,585. For comparison, it was #389 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carly in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1951 with 6 babies. In all, 66,626 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 22,843 babies named Carly.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,894 US girls were named Carly; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 807. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,481 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Carly ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #598 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Carla (150,815 babies since 1880), Karlee (13,647 babies since 1880), Karly (10,871 babies since 1880) and Carleigh (6,114 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Carlye, Karlye and Carlea are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Carlye (1,066), Karlye (384), Carlea (312), Carlei (172), Carlia (150).
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 Carly in the open dataset we use.
Carly is listed as a nickname for Carla, Karla.
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 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 17 | #598 | #275 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #629 | #432 |
| Colorado | 8 | #652 | #452 |
| Indiana | 9 | #662 | #356 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #672 | #434 |
| Maryland | 7 | #673 | #500 |
| New Jersey | 11 | #678 | #331 |
| Missouri | 7 | #746 | #231 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #780 | #523 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #824 | #319 |
| Virginia | 8 | #862 | #478 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #863 | #280 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #916 | #458 |
| Florida | 16 | #968 | #541 |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,009 | #391 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,035 | #258 |
| Texas | 27 | #1,043 | #466 |
| New York | 10 | #1,338 | #367 |
| California | 13 | #1,666 | #488 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 248 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 2024 | 308 | #875 | — | — |
| 2023 | 361 | #780 | — | — |
| 2022 | 366 | #778 | — | — |
| 2021 | 447 | #664 | — | — |
| 2020 | 471 | #621 | — | — |
| 2019 | 536 | #567 | — | — |
| 2018 | 655 | #478 | — | — |
| 2017 | 695 | #456 | — | — |
| 2016 | 807 | #413 | — | — |
| 2015 | 846 | #389 | — | — |
| 2014 | 916 | #357 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,019 | #322 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,110 | #285 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,277 | #248 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,439 | #218 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,508 | #215 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,685 | #197 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,323 | #261 | 6 | #11,138 |
| 2006 | 1,351 | #252 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,749 | #199 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,926 | #177 | 9 | #7,617 |
| 2003 | 1,762 | #183 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,590 | #206 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,833 | #176 | 6 | #9,437 |
| 2000 | 1,961 | #169 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,827 | #172 | — | — |
| 1998 | 2,264 | #141 | 6 | #8,628 |
| 1997 | 2,335 | #137 | 5 | #9,477 |
| 1996 | 2,510 | #126 | 5 | #9,206 |
| 1995 | 2,585 | #122 | — | — |
| 1994 | 2,323 | #138 | 8 | #6,452 |
| 1993 | 2,365 | #137 | 7 | #6,917 |
| 1992 | 2,467 | #134 | 6 | #7,550 |
| 1991 | 2,338 | #137 | 8 | #6,025 |
| 1990 | 1,777 | #163 | 7 | #6,504 |
| 1989 | 1,553 | #179 | 11 | #4,558 |
| 1988 | 1,600 | #175 | 13 | #3,733 |
| 1987 | 1,412 | #196 | — | — |
| 1986 | 1,189 | #223 | 14 | #3,287 |
| 1985 | 1,311 | #202 | 7 | #5,220 |
| 1984 | 1,322 | #203 | 7 | #5,045 |
| 1983 | 1,160 | #219 | — | — |
| 1982 | 1,249 | #212 | 11 | #3,723 |
| 1981 | 927 | #270 | 10 | #3,889 |
| 1980 | 752 | #322 | — | — |
| 1979 | 676 | #345 | 8 | #4,464 |
| 1978 | 550 | #383 | — | — |
| 1977 | 401 | #478 | — | — |
| 1976 | 345 | #518 | — | — |
| 1975 | 318 | #543 | — | — |
| 1974 | 370 | #480 | — | — |
| 1973 | 240 | #630 | 6 | #4,576 |
| 1972 | 74 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,492 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,037 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,487 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,761 | — | — |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,540 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,912 | — | — |
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).