Carrie Girl
How popular is Carrie?
#2,719 girl name in 2025
63 baby girls were named Carrie in the US in 2025, making it the 2719th most popular girl name.
Carrie popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #2,719 for girls (▲ 294 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 63 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-50% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,685 in 2015, #2,170 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1977 (8,661 girls) |
| Highest rank | #20 in 1880 (2 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Carrie counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Kairi family of names ranked #615 for girls in 2025 (#604 the year before), with 451 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kairi | 239 | 53% |
| Kari | 90 | 20% |
| Carrie | 63 | 14% |
| Cari | 10 | 2% |
| Kairy | 20 | 4% |
| Karri | 8 | 2% |
| Karrie | 7 | 2% |
| Karie | 7 | 2% |
| Kayri | 7 | 2% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Carrie is most popular
Babies named Carrie per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Ohio: 0.1 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.1 per 1,000 (17 girls)
- North Carolina: 0.1 per 1,000 (16 girls)
- Indiana: 0.1 per 1,000 (9 girls)
- Kentucky: 0.1 per 1,000 (5 girls)
Carrie by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 12,514 | #20 |
| 1890s | 14,276 | #29 |
| 1900s | 13,140 | #48 |
| 1910s | 18,067 | #70 |
| 1920s | 19,127 | #121 |
| 1930s | 12,525 | #145 |
| 1940s | 10,973 | #176 |
| 1950s | 16,179 | #145 |
| 1960s | 31,173 | #86 |
| 1970s | 66,825 | #28 |
| 1980s | 36,079 | #46 |
| 1990s | 10,315 | #170 |
| 2000s | 3,323 | #503 |
| 2010s | 1,421 | #1,299 |
| 2020s | 413 | #2,170 |
Girl names about as popular as Carrie
Questions
- Is Carrie a boy or girl name?
- Carrie is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Carrie were girls.
- How popular is the name Carrie?
- 63 baby girls were named Carrie in the US in 2025, making it the 2719th most popular girl name.
- When was Carrie most popular?
- Carrie peaked in 1977, when 8,661 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #20, held for 2 years starting in 1880.
- How many people are named Carrie?
- 267,540 babies have been named Carrie in the US since 1880. We estimate about 166,494 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 51.
- Where is Carrie most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Carrie was most common in Ohio, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.