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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Carly

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#1,009

down −134 places

2025 births

248

down −60 births

All-time births

66,466

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1995
2,585 births
Best rank
#122
in 1995
First recorded
1951
#4,912 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1998
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
60 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19952,585#122Peak
  2. 19962,510#126
  3. 19922,467#134
  4. 19932,365#137
  5. 19912,338#137

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #122 in 1995 · peak births 2,585 in 1995

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

160 boys · 66,466 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 Carly has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.