Carrey
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kaʁɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Carrey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 54K
- FRFrance≈1 in 68K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 160 (measured from records)
- 1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Carrey 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 68K | 127 | Carrey | 2 |
| US United States | 192 | 1 in 1.7M | 236 | Carrey | 160 |
| CA Canada | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 333K | — | Carrey | 44 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 672K | — | Carrey | 63 |
| ES Spain | 92 | 1 in 544K | 92 | Carrey | 12 |
| IE Ireland | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 545K | — | Carrey | 8 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 1 | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Carrey is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In gv, friend
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Jacques Carreyb. 1649FRFrench painter (1649–1726)
- Émile Carreyb. 1820FRFrench politician (1820–1880)
- Percy Carreyb. 1927CACanadian musician
- Kathleen Carreyb. 1927CACanadian homemaker (1927-1991)
- Bobbi Carreyb. 1946USAmerican photographer (born 1946)
- Jim Carreyb. 1962CACanadian-American actor and comedian (born 1962)
- Pierre Carreyb. 1983FRFrench journalist
- Jane Carreyb. 1987CACanadian-American actress and singer-songwriter
- Victor CarreyESSpanish screenwriter
- Elizabeth CarreyGBmedical researcher and author
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 236 | #75,938 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 206 | #95,069 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 192 | #95,115 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 177 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 155 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 147 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 143 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 140 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 138 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 127 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 112 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 103 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Carrey?
- A machine transcription gives /kaʁɛ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Carrey have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 998 people named Carrey in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carrey.
- Where is Carrey most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Carrey is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 54 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Carrey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 192 people named Carrey in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Carrey?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carreyThe 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, “Carrey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.