Carrie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Pet form of Caroline or occasionally of other girls’ names beginning with the syllable Car-
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɛɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Carrie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Norway it is the 37th most common given name.
- CNChina≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 135as Kari
- NONorway1 in 246as Kari
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Carrie itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #257 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 593 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Claire in GB United Kingdom, IE Ireland, Kari in NO Norway, FI Finland and קלייר in FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Pet form of Caroline or occasionally of other girls’ names beginning with the syllable Car-.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Carrie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Carrie | 82 |
| US United States | #133 | 163,948as Claire | 1 in 2K | 163K | Carrie | 593 |
| GB United Kingdom | #42 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 462 | 7 | Claire | 399 |
| FR France | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 546 | 160K | קלייר | 19 |
| FI Finland | #57 | 41,301as Kari | 1 in 135 | 57K | Kari | 68 |
| NO Norway | #37 | 22,263as Kari | 1 in 246 | 72K | Kari | 114 |
| IE Ireland | #49 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 767 | — | Claire | 161 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Carrie is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A diminutive of the female given name Caroline, also used as a formal given name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, English: a free person
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In German, ) Carry ['kaen]: weibl. Vom., eng lische Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
English: pet form of CAROLINE or occasionally of other girls' names beginning with the syllable Car -. It was first used in the 19th century and is now popular in its own right, Caro having to some extent taken over the role of the short form.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Carrie Chapman Cattb. 1859USAmerican social reformer, suffragist (1859-1947)
- Carrie Snodgressb. 1945USAmerican actress (1945-2004)
- Carrie Fisherb. 1956USAmerican actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
- Carrie Lamb. 1957GBformer Chief Executive of Hong Kong
- Carrie Hamiltonb. 1963USAmerican actress, singer, playwright (1963-2002)
- Carrie Prestonb. 1967USAmerican actress
- Carrie Brownsteinb. 1974USAmerican musician and actress
- Carrie Coonb. 1981USAmerican actress
- Carrie Underwoodb. 1983USAmerican singer and actor (born 1983)
- Carrie Johnsonb. 1988GBBritish press officer, wife of Boris Johnson
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 64 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 157K | #354 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 290 | #354 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 63 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 48 | #5,830 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #17,634 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #21,272 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 11 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 6 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2021 | 5 | #558 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2020 | 3 | #397 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Concise Dictionary of First Names (Hanks & Hodges, 2001) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Carrie a male or female name?
- Carrie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Carrie mean, and where does it come from?
- Pet form of Caroline or occasionally of other girls’ names beginning with the syllable Car-. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Carrie?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɛɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Carrie?
- In the etymology graph, Carolina, Carla and Karla are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Caroline and Carlyn.
- In which country does Carrie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Carrie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carrie.
- How common is the name Carrie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 163,948 people named Claire in 2020, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Carrie compared with other names?
- In Norway, Carrie is the 37th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Carrie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carrieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Carrie” — the 37th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.