girls:
14.9k births since 1883
#1252 (78th percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1889
#3322 (28th percentile)
overall:
16.2k births since 1883
#2036 (74th percentile)
The name Carlie is the #2,036 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,172 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 73.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,252 (78.1% percentile) for all time with 14,880 births since 1883. For boys, it ranks #3,322 (27.5% percentile) for all time with 1,292 births since 1889.
Carlie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for girls and 1889 for boys). Birth data for Carlie is available in 134 out of the 141 years between 1883 and 2023 (131 years for girls and 89 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 Carlie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 92.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Carlie reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 51.5% percentile (ranked #455) with 290 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 290 births per million (ranked 51.5% percentile). Despite a low point in 2003, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Carlie ranks #882 for girls (6.9% percentile) with 40 births per million, which is 13.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Carlie reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 5.3% percentile (ranked #517) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 68 births per million (ranked 2.6% 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 "Carlie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Carlie is pronounced as KAHR-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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