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Carlee

Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
US rank, 2025
#1,911 for girls

Carlee is a girls' name of Germanic origin. In 2025 it ranked 1,911th for girls in the US (101 babies).

What does Carlee mean?

Germanic

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Carlee a girl's or a boy's name?

Carlee is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 101 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Carlee in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 8 girls.

1996Busiest: 8 in 20072023
Carlee in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20231#7,582
20220–
20210–
20200–
20190–
20180–
20170–
20160–
20154#4,951
20140–
20130–
20121#7,881
20114#4,980
20106#3,715
20093#5,801
20083#5,772
20078#2,790
20065#3,724
20050–
20043#4,789
20030–
20020–
20010–
20000–
19990–
19984#3,310
19970–
19963#3,935

How popular is Carlee in the US?

Rank in 2025
#1,911among girls
Babies in 2025
101about 1 in 16,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 43% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 101 girls in the US were named Carlee, making it the 1,911th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,318th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 464 girls. It first appears in the records in 1902.

2025 had fewer girls named Carlee than any year since 1986.

Half of all the girls named Carlee in the US since 1880 were born between 1995 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 777 girls in the US were given Carlee or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #425, up from #1,911 for this spelling alone.

In 2008, 99% of the babies named Carlee in the US were girls.

1902Busiest: 464 in 20092025
Carlee in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025101#1,911
2024121#1,681
2023117#1,750
2022158#1,422
2021157#1,392
2020167#1,318
2019184#1,259
2018239#1,065
2017264#985
2016317#887
2015371#760
2014336#823
2013367#741
2012365#759
2011369#745
2010360#757
2009464#641
2008430#701
2007445#666
2006444#653
2005459#614
2004432#631
2003385#680
2002392#645
2001362#688
2000401#627
1999362#646
1998391#615
1997377#600
1996326#675
1995302#698
1994288#718
1993294#722
1992297#718
1991222#883
1990144#1,182
1989142#1,154
1988113#1,284
1987109#1,280
198694#1,367
1985106#1,269
198492#1,323
198368#1,629
198289#1,374
198154#1,958
198047#2,154
197935#2,582
197839#2,305
197732#2,606
197641#2,099
197527#2,743
197439#2,100
197333#2,309
197216#3,714
19717#6,617
19708#5,817
19699#5,056
19688#5,146
19676#6,041
19668#4,865
19657#5,288
19648#5,007
196311#4,018
196212#3,781
19616#5,850
19609#4,436
19596#5,565
19586#5,407
19575#6,085
195611#3,695
19556#5,207
195412#3,324
19530–
19526#4,906
19518#4,010
195012#3,051
194915#2,619
194812#2,973
19476#4,762
19469#3,429
194510#2,915
194412#2,624
194317#2,150
19428#3,442
19416#3,952
19407#3,501
19399#2,920
193811#2,578
19377#3,433
19366#3,699
193510#2,729
193414#2,186
193312#2,403
193219#1,816
193110#2,748
19309#3,053
192915#2,190
192813#2,496
19279#3,282
192614#2,473
192512#2,777
192414#2,513
19239#3,349
19229#3,377
192117#2,195
192011#2,899
191916#2,156
191814#2,375
191713#2,427
19169#3,029
191510#2,687
19140–
19136#2,825
19127#2,359
19116#2,191
19107#1,935
19090–
19080–
19070–
19060–
19050–
19040–
19030–
19025#1,792

Names like Carlee

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Carlee

Names related to Carlee

More Germanic names

Every Germanic name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Carlee: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/carlee, updated 20 October 2026.