Gender-neutral · #6446 in 2025
Carey
Carey: popularity and trends since 1880
- Rank
- #6446
- Born 2025
- 13
- Peak year
- 1957
Popularity, 1880–2025
per 100,000 boys born
Recent trend
Carey has been falling: its share of boys born has shrunk over the last 10 years. It now stands at 4% of its 1957 peak.
Boy or girl?
Over the last 10 years, 29% of children named Carey were recorded as girls and 71% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.
Sounds good with
Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.