Carry

girls’ name · 82%boys’ name · 18%FadedCompare

Carry is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 740th, in 1884.

Rank in 2024: —fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024: 0not in the data
Peak year: 197537 births
Best rank: #740in 1884
Since 1881: 1,659people given the name

Babies named Carry, by year of birthgirlsboys

The story in the numbers

1,359 girls have been named Carry in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1975, with 37 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 37 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1940, and the 1970s alone account for 17%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Carry is used for both sexes: 18% of its bearers are boys (300), most of them born around 1964.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Carry
1880s	37
1890s	80
1900s	114
1910s	176
1920s	170
1930s	92
1940s	59
1950s	73
1960s	114
1970s	232
1980s	145
1990s	54
2000s	13

In 1975, its biggest year

Carry was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1975 were Jennifer, Amy, Heather, Melissa and Angela. See all of 1975.

Names that rose and fell with Carry

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.