Carey
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#6,519
down −1,244 places
2025 births
13
down −5 births
All-time births
16,880
0% of them in 2025
More common than
98%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1957
- 461 births
- Best rank
- #353
- in 1957
- First recorded
- 1880
- #506 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1961
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 1957461#353Peak
- 1959437#378
- 1954403#360
- 1958399#392
- 1960370#411
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #353 in 1957 · peak births 461 in 1957
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 57% boys■ 43% girls
16,880 boys · 12,741 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Carey has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.