girls:
12.8k births since 1902
#1383 (76th percentile)
boys:
308 births since 1912
#4278 (7th percentile)
overall:
13.1k births since 1902
#2301 (70th percentile)
The name Carlee is the #2,301 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,059 recorded births since 1902. This represents the 70.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,383 (75.8% percentile) for all time with 12,751 births since 1902. For boys, it ranks #4,278 (6.7% percentile) for all time with 308 births since 1912.
Carlee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1902 (1902 for girls and 1912 for boys). Birth data for Carlee is available in 114 out of the 122 years between 1902 and 2023 (113 years for girls and 43 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Carlee has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Carlee reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 44.4% percentile (ranked #523) with 226 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 229 births per million (ranked 43.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Carlee ranks #837 for girls (11.6% percentile) with 66 births per million, which is 28.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Carlee reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #515) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 16 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Carlee".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Carlee. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.7% confident that Carlee is pronounced as KAHR-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kahr-LEE, at 14.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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