Carrie

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Carrie is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 48th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Pet form of Caroline or occasionally of other girls’ names beginning with the syllable Car-.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 135◐
  • NONorway1 in 246
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 311

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈407K ●

across 10 countries

#511 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
525 ●

4.6M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 135 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

CarrieLatin · English●2.2M records
קליירHebrew · Hebrew●3K records
แคล์รThai · Thai●1 records
ΚλαιρGreek · Greek●0 records
캐리Hangul · Korean●0 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Claire in GB United Kingdom, AU Australia, PH Philippines and 10 more, Kari in NO Norway, FI Finland, DK Denmark and 1 more, קלייר in FR France, IL Israel and Clare in KE Kenya, ZA South Africa.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Pet form of Caroline or occasionally of other girls’ names beginning with the syllable Car-.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Carrie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#48664,028546K rec.—7Claire307
AU Australia#85248,551205K rec.—117Claire265
US United States#128163,2983.4M rec.1 in 2K163KCarrie525
FR France—160,095△500 rec.1 in 424160Kקלייר15
CA Canada#112108,14689K rec.—53Carrie210
PH Philippines#36959,41548K rec.——Claire141
FI Finland#75641,290△4.2K rec.1 in 13557KKari67
NO Norway#2322,263△9.9K rec.1 in 24672KKari98
IT Italy#39118,46219K rec.—1Carrie92
DE Germany#69118,45118K rec.—1Claire165
IE Ireland#7018,26915K rec.——Claire150
IN India—16,7756.7K rec.—2.8KCarrie66

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English2.2M82%
  • 153K6%
  • Spanish73K3%
  • Portuguese30K1%
  • German21K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English2,215,69782%
152,8816%
Spanish72,8443%
Portuguese30,4331%
German20,5531%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Carrie is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name164K records spelled Carrie2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Carrié

  • Spanish given name120K records spelled Carrie9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Carrié, Carrië

  • French given name32K records spelled Carrie4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Carrié, Carriè

  • Russian given name11K records spelled Carrie27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Czech

    Also written Kerry, Kerri, Carry, Кэрри, Керрі

  • Indonesian given name6.8K records spelled Carrie3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Carrié

  • Thai given name3.5K records spelled Carrie3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Thailand, United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Carrié

67 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Carrie is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A diminutive of the female given name Caroline, also used as a formal given name.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, English: a free person

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In German, ) Carry ['kaen]: weibl. Vom., eng­ lische Koseform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • English: pet form of CAROLINE or occasionally of other girls' names beginning with the syllable Car -. It was first used in the 19th century and is now popular in its own right, Caro having to some extent taken over the role of the short form.

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02.5K5K7.5K10K1900195020008.7K · 1977

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Carrie in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
1880949
1881958
18821,037
18831,108
18841,245
18851,283
18861,396
18871,344
18881,647
18891,547
18901,510
18911,342
18921,588
18931,451
18941,452
18951,463
18961,388
18971,365
18981,371
18991,346
19001,711
19011,247
19021,376
19031,252
19041,280
19051,288
19061,188
19071,283
19081,239
19091,276
19101,381
19111,281
19121,580
19131,517
19141,798
19151,968
19162,159
19172,073
19182,130
19192,180
19202,108
19212,081
19222,120
19231,930
19242,051
19252,025
19261,860
19271,789
19281,653
19291,510
19301,465
19311,306
19321,397
19331,261
19341,260
19351,278
19361,183
19371,176
19381,123
19391,076
19401,093
19411,030
19421,187
19431,136
19441,020
1945985
19461,071
19471,170
19481,174
19491,107
1950975
19511,065
19521,110
19531,282
19541,308
19551,211
19561,529
19572,156
19582,583
19592,960
19603,150
19613,178
19623,031
19632,817
19642,975
19652,484
19662,476
19673,195
19683,979
19693,888
19704,978
19715,977
19725,421
19735,835
19746,436
19757,854
19767,991
19778,661
19787,318
19796,354
19805,761
19815,094
19825,186
19834,296
19843,691
19852,942
19862,558
19872,390
19882,204
19891,957
19901,708
19911,465
19921,285
19931,117
19941,012
1995897
1996876
1997744
1998629
1999582
2000536
2001430
2002321
2003345
2004311
2005304
2006308
2007268
2008264
2009236
2010181
2011152
2012154
2013177
2014150
2015126
2016143
2017130
2018115
201993
202083
202177
202268
202368
202454
202563

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Carrie Chapman Catt, b. 1859Carrie Snodgress, b. 1945Carrie Fisher, b. 1956Carrie Lam, b. 1957Carrie Hamilton, b. 1963Carrie Preston, b. 1967Carrie Brownstein, b. 1974Carrie Coon, b. 1981Carrie Underwood, b. 1983Carrie Johnson, b. 1988

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 64 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Carrie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020157K#354
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000939#24,873
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010797#29,581
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020747#32,900
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020290#354
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991274—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—102#8,410
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202067—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202563—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—57#7,800
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—48#9,046
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—37#13,994

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 699 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Carrie?
We estimate roughly 407 thousand people bear Carrie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Carrie have the most bearers?
Carrie is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled claire.
Where is Carrie most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Carrie is densest in Finland — about 1 in 135 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
How common is Carrie compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Carrie is the 48th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Carrie a male or female name?
Carrie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Carrie mean?
Recorded meaning: Pet form of Caroline or occasionally of other girls’ names beginning with the syllable Car-.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Carrie” — the 48th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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