Name meaning & stats
Carey
Carey. 26,756 US babies since 1940, peak 1975.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
In US birth records
Peak year: 1975
26,756 US babies were named Carey between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Carey (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 2 Carys spell it Carey
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1975)