Carlye
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Carlye has been given to 1,066 babies in the U.S. since 1944. 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 1996, with 52 recorded.
Babies named Carlye, 2017
1 in 596,000
Carlye 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Carlye?
Carlye had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2017
- 1 in 596,000
- 6 of 3,577,106 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 288,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 413,245 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Carlye sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carlye. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Carlyes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Carlye was born before 1991 — so the typical Carlye is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 35.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 45.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,056
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (381).
Is Carlye 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1996 (52)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.4% average annual change
Spellings of Carlye
Carlye is not the most common spelling — Carolyn is, with 35.3% against Carlye's 0.07%.
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 Carlye is used
Across 1910–2025, Carlye was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,385,829 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Missouri1 in —
- 3Texas1 in —
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. Carlye has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Carlye around the world
Where Carlye 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.
- Canada1992–1992#2,433in 1992
- South Australia1976–2000#727in 2000
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Carlye by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Carlye
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Carlye
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.