Carie
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Carie has been given to 4,399 babies in the U.S. since 1888. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1976, with 313 recorded.
Babies named Carie, 2007
1 in 571,000
Carie over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Carie?
Carie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2007
- 1 in 571,000
- 7 of 3,997,748 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 275,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2007
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 395,862 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Carie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 395,862 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Caries were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Carie was born before 1974 — so the typical Carie is around 51 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 49.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 13.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 4,119
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 49.1% of all recorded uses (2,158).
Is Carie rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1976 (313)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.6% average annual change
Spellings of Carie
Carie is not the most common spelling — Carol is, with 16.0% against Carie's 0.09%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Carie is used
Across 1910–2025, Carie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 62,366 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 33,333
- 2Illinois1 in 33,333
- 3Michigan1 in 33,333
- 4Nebraska1 in 33,333
- 5Ohio1 in 33,333
- 6Washington1 in 33,333
- 7Wisconsin1 in 33,333
- 8Iowa1 in 50,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Carie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Carie around the world
Where Carie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1964–1985#671in 1985
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Carie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Carie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Carie
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Carie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Carie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.