Carley
Carley is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 53 births. Its best rank was 376th, in 1996.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 530.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1998713 births
- Best rank
- #376in 1996
- Since 1921
- 17,269people given the name
The story in the numbers
16,859 girls have been named Carley in the United States since 1921, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 713 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1999, and the 1990s alone account for 35%. It has spent 32 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 410 boys have also been given it, 2.4% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Carley | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 129 | |
| 1930s | 112 | |
| 1940s | 78 | |
| 1950s | 65 | |
| 1960s | 38 | |
| 1970s | 443 | |
| 1980s | 1,776 | |
| 1990s | 5,912 | |
| 2000s | 5,584 | |
| 2010s | 2,290 | |
| 2020s | 432 |
In 1998, its biggest year
Carley was the 389th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1998 were Emily, Hannah, Samantha, Sarah and Ashley. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Carley
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gabriellepeak 1998
- Keiannapeak 1999
- Shaylynpeak 1993
- Tiannapeak 1995
- Karlipeak 1994
- Dezireepeak 2001
- Keyannapeak 1995
- Bryanapeak 1997
Other spellings in the data
- Carly66,214 ever
- Charlee18,967 ever
- Carlie16,245 ever
- Karlee13,541 ever
- Carlee13,184 ever
- Karlie11,400 ever
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.