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Carlie

Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
UK rank, 2025
#4,935 for girls
US rank, 2025
#2,645 for girls

Carlie is a girls' name of Germanic origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 2,645th for girls in the US (65 babies).

What does Carlie mean?

Germanic

A female given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Carly.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Carlie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 65 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Carlie in the UK?

Rank in 2025
4,935th among girls
Babies in 2025
4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Carlie, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,326th. Its busiest year was 1996, with 43 girls.

Half of all the girls named Carlie in the UK since 1996 were born between 1999 and 2009. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

In 2025, 16 girls in the UK were given Carlie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,607, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 43 in 19962025
Carlie in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20254#4,935
20240–
20230–
20221#7,487
20215#4,148
20201#7,326
20190–
20187#3,344
20177#3,395
201610#2,692
20158#3,114
20146#3,702
20138#3,060
201213#2,210
201111#2,393
201015#1,912
200919#1,556
200823#1,346
200727#1,138
200620#1,364
200520#1,280
200421#1,194
200323#1,087
200217#1,280
200120#1,118
200029#854
199937#704
199834#761
199728#870
199643#622

How popular is Carlie in the US?

Rank in 2025
2,645th among girls
Babies in 2025
65 about 1 in 25,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 59% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 65 girls in the US were named Carlie, making it the 2,645th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,485th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 586 girls. It first appears in the records in 1883.

2025 had fewer girls named Carlie than any year since 1979.

Half of all the girls named Carlie in the US since 1880 were born between 1993 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 777 girls in the US were given Carlie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #425, up from #2,645 for this spelling alone.

In 1914, 48% of the babies named Carlie in the US were girls. By 2004 it was 99%, with more girls than boys since 1973.

1883Busiest: 586 in 20042025
Carlie in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202565#2,645
202471#2,508
202370#2,517
202276#2,404
2021102#1,926
2020144#1,485
2019165#1,366
2018192#1,219
2017220#1,130
2016250#1,048
2015254#1,045
2014277#965
2013296#872
2012294#896
2011313#842
2010353#781
2009405#711
2008455#671
2007482#618
2006490#594
2005534#541
2004586#502
2003495#558
2002471#563
2001515#519
2000540#500
1999501#512
1998549#469
1997491#503
1996486#492
1995453#531
1994431#558
1993415#574
1992374#607
1991348#640
1990206#922
1989185#952
1988178#945
1987141#1,081
1986144#1,047
1985162#957
1984161#923
1983129#1,071
1982114#1,193
1981102#1,261
198072#1,605
197961#1,770
197860#1,729
197753#1,877
197644#1,996
197544#1,986
197456#1,646
197337#2,127
197220#3,177
197111#4,808
197013#4,245
19696#6,615
19688#5,146
19677#5,456
19665#6,563
19656#5,816
19648#5,007
196310#4,271
196212#3,781
196110#4,238
19605#6,389
195911#3,826
195810#3,924
19577#4,917
195610#3,909
195512#3,376
195415#2,888
195314#2,920
195213#3,039
195115#2,693
19500–
19498#3,891
194812#2,973
194718#2,353
194614#2,596
194520#1,873
194416#2,198
194316#2,250
194220#1,916
194112#2,531
19405#4,347
193916#2,038
193818#1,873
193711#2,569
193613#2,262
193514#2,205
193410#2,740
193315#2,051
193213#2,363
193110#2,748
193018#1,933
192910#2,920
192814#2,380
192713#2,551
192618#2,075
192515#2,377
192418#2,136
192312#2,732
192210#3,150
192116#2,282
192010#3,097
191916#2,156
191829#1,451
191712#2,551
191617#1,949
19159#2,899
191415#1,740
19139#2,163
19128#2,143
191115#1,171
19107#1,935
19090–
19085#2,101
19079#1,384
19060–
19059#1,297
19045#1,876
19037#1,440
19020–
19015#1,678
190010#1,230
18996#1,393
189812#1,009
18970–
18960–
189510#1,053
18948#1,136
18937#1,175
18925#1,450
18916#1,213
18905#1,337
18895#1,278
18887#1,036
18870–
18860–
18850–
18840–
18836#817

Names like Carlie

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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, “Carlie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/carlie, updated 20 October 2026.