girls:
65.9k births since 1951
#486 (92nd percentile)
boys:
160 births since 1973
#4426 (3rd percentile)
overall:
66.1k births since 1951
#901 (88th percentile)
The name Carly is the #901 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 66,059 recorded births since 1951. This represents the 88.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #486 (91.5% percentile) for all time with 65,899 births since 1951. For boys, it ranks #4,426 (3.4% percentile) for all time with 160 births since 1973.
Carly first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1951 (1951 for girls and 1973 for boys). Birth data for Carly is available in 58 out of the 73 years between 1951 and 2023 (58 years for girls and 20 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 Carly has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Carly reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 86.0% percentile (ranked #120) with 1,345 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 1,345 births per million (ranked 86.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1996, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Carly ranks #614 for girls (35.2% percentile) with 204 births per million, which is 15.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Carly reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #747) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Carly".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Carly is pronounced as KAHR-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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