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Carey
Pronounced /ˈkɛəɹi/
Rank in 2024
#17,218
Born in 2024
5
Peak year
1975 · #304
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:18 in 2024 (#5,393)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 5 girls were named Carey, about 1 in every 322,638.
- It peaked in 1975 with 756 babies, ranked #304.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 12,742 girls have been named Carey since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Carey per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 220 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 297 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,132 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen X: 7,213 babies, 0.28 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,320 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 442 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 95 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
As a German surname, Americanized from Gehrig, Gehring. As a Welsh surname, variant of Carew. As an English surname, from placenames derived from Proto-Brythonic *karɨd (“to love”). As an Irish surname, from mac Fhiachra (“descendant of Fiachra”), from préachán (“crow”). Also as an Irish surname, from the root of the name Kerry.
- (countable) A unisex given name.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A female given name, variant of Cary.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈkɛəɹi/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Carey, CC BY-SA 4.0.