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Carey
Pronounced /ˈkɛəɹi/
Rank in 2024
#5,393
Born in 2024
18
Peak year
1957 · #354
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:5 in 2024 (#17,218)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 18 boys were named Carey, about 1 in every 95,295.
- It peaked in 1957 with 461 babies, ranked #354.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 16,865 boys 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
- 0.2Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 1,215 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Silent: 1,660 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Boomers: 6,169 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Gen X: 4,529 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,161 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen Z: 596 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 214 babies, 0.01 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.