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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Carry

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

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not recorded in 2025

2025 births

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All-time births

1,359

peak year 1975

More common than

92%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1975
37 births
Best rank
#740
in 1884
First recorded
1881
#751 that year
Last recorded
2001
no later published record
Average birth year
1944
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
110 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 197537#2,238Peak
  2. 197626#2,875
  3. 197726#3,015
  4. 191924#1,656
  5. 192024#1,716

Rank over time

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

Best rank #740 in 1884 · peak births 37 in 1975

Boys and girls

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

● 18% boys■ 82% girls

300 boys · 1,359 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 Carry has ranked, decade by decade

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