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Cary
Rank in 2024
#3,661
Born in 2024
31
Peak year
1957 · #268
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:5 in 2024 (#17,216)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 31 boys were named Cary, about 1 in every 55,333.
- It peaked in 1957 with 788 babies, ranked #268.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 24,472 boys have been named Cary since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Cary per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.3Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 968 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Silent: 2,016 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Boomers: 10,685 babies, 0.28 per 1,000. Gen X: 7,160 babies, 0.26 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,383 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 650 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 348 babies, 0.02 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
- A male given name transferred from the surnames.
- A diminutive of the female given name Caroline.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Cary, CC BY-SA 4.0.