girls:
16.8k births since 1921
#1151 (80th percentile)
boys:
410 births since 1912
#4176 (9th percentile)
overall:
17.2k births since 1912
#1970 (75th percentile)
The name Carley is the #1,970 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,206 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 74.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,151 (79.9% percentile) for all time with 16,796 births since 1921. For boys, it ranks #4,176 (8.9% percentile) for all time with 410 births since 1912.
Carley first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1921 for girls). Birth data for Carley is available in 106 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023 (96 years for girls and 53 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 Carley has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.6% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1924, the name was more popular for boys (71.7% boys from 1912 to 1923), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (98.1% girls from 1924 to 2023).
For girls, Carley reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 58.9% percentile (ranked #354) with 367 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 368 births per million (ranked 57.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2000, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Carley ranks #891 for girls (5.9% percentile) with 35 births per million, which is 9.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Carley reached its peak popularity in 1938, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #514) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 14 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Carley".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Carley is pronounced as KAHR-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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