Carrie
Pronounced K AE1 R IY0 (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 1977
- 145 years in use
- 13 spellings
How popular is Carrie?
Carrie is a girls' name, and has been in the record since the data starts in 1880. It has been given to 451,928 children — the 86th most common girls' name on record.
It has been slipping, down 42% on the previous decade. Its best single year was 1977, when 15,347 children were given it.
13 other spellings are counted in that total — Kari, Kerry, Kerri and ten more — because they are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Carrie and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Kari
- Kerry
- Kerri
- Carey
- Karrie
- Cary
- Carie
- Carri
- Kary
- Carry
- Karry
- Carrey
- Kerrey
Nicknames
Characteristics
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- K AE1 R IY0 · K EH1 R IY0
- Stress pattern:
- 10 · 10
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Carrie
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Carrie
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Carrie?
- Carrie ranks 86th among girls' names in US records, with 451,928 births since 1880. Over the past decade it accounts for 2,845.
- Is Carrie a unisex name?
- No. Carrie is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Carrie most popular?
- 1977, when 15,347 children were given the name. It has been in use for 145 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Carrie spelled?
- Kari, Kerry, Kerri, Carey, Karrie, Cary, Carie, Carri, Kary, Carry, Karry, Carrey, Kerrey. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.