How Many People Are Named Carly?
people named Carly are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 5,225 people in the US has this name
Based on 66,626 babies named Carly in Social Security records from 1951 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
2,585 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Feminine form of CARL.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Carly in English. Counting Carly and these spellings together, about 120,764 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Carly (99.8%) were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Carly alive today is about 27 years old, and 56% are under 30. Half of them were between 19 and 35 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Carly first appears in the records in 1951 and was given most often in 1995, to 2,585 babies. In 2025, 248 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1951 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Carly has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #122, in 1995. In 2025 it ranked #1,009.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,009 |
| Best rank | #122 (1995) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #143 in the 1990s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Carly alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Carly were born in California than in any other state: about 6,309 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Carly was given 1.8 times as often in North Dakota, 1.7 times in New Jersey and 1.7 times in Pennsylvania.
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