first name
CARRIE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 157,744 people named Carrie, 83.8% reported their origin as White, 8.8% as Black and 2.8% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Carrie peaked in 1977, when 8,688 babies got the name.
At least 267,540 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Carrie by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #38. The largest share of babies named Carrie, 33.2%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Carrie is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Carrie has been most common in South Carolina (2.8×), Mississippi (2.3×), and Alabama (2×), and least common in Rhode Island (0.3×).
223,202 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Carrie
Spelled almost the same
4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Carrie, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Carrie ranks #32,900 of 156,621, with 747 people. See Carrie as a last name
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