How popular is the name Carly?

Carly ranks 355th among girls' names in US records, with 102,794 births since 1921. Over the past decade it accounts for 8,857.

Is Carly a unisex name?

No. Carly is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1995, when 3,905 children were given the name. It has been in use for 104 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Carley, Karly, Carli. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#355 of girl names

Pronounced K AA1 R L IY0 (ARPABET)

Carly is a girls' name, and first appears in 1921. It has been given to 102,794 children — the 355th most common girls' name on record.

It is falling away, down 60% on the previous decade. Its best single year was 1995, when 3,905 children were given it.

Three other spellings are counted in that total — Carley, Karly and Carli — because they are pronounced identically.

19953,905

These spellings sound identical to Carly and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Carly?: Carly ranks 355th among girls' names in US records, with 102,794 births since 1921. Over the past decade it accounts for 8,857.
Is Carly a unisex name?: No. Carly is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Carly most popular?: 1995, when 3,905 children were given the name. It has been in use for 104 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Carly spelled?: Carley, Karly, Carli. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.