Carlye
Last seen for girls in 2017 at #14,124
- Peak · girls
- 1976 · 45 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,066since 1944
Carlye over time
Rank among girls' names. Carlye has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 |
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| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 |
| 2007 | #6,812 | 19 |
| 2006 | #6,592 | 19 |
| 2005 | #8,330 | 13 |
| 2004 | #5,744 | 21 |
| 2003 | #5,419 | 22 |
| 2002 | #5,086 | 23 |
| 2001 | #3,785 | 34 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 |
| 1999 | #4,576 | 24 |
| 1998 | #3,497 | 34 |
| 1997 | #2,695 | 46 |
| 1996 | #2,451 | 52 |
| 1995 | #3,285 | 34 |
| 1994 | #2,877 | 41 |
| 1993 | #3,158 | 36 |
| 1992 | #2,687 | 45 |
| 1991 | #2,989 | 38 |
| 1990 | #3,436 | 31 |
| 1989 | #3,784 | 26 |
| 1988 | #2,987 | 34 |
| 1987 | #3,331 | 27 |
| 1986 | #4,028 | 20 |
| 1985 | #3,730 | 22 |
| 1984 | #2,851 | 31 |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 |
| 1982 | #2,770 | 33 |
| 1981 | #3,436 | 24 |
| 1980 | #4,327 | 17 |
| 1979 | #3,777 | 20 |
| 1978 | #3,777 | 19 |
| 1977 | #2,909 | 27 |
| 1976 | #1,968 | 45 |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 |
| 1974 | #3,008 | 23 |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
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| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
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| 1963 | #4,896 | 8 |
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| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 |
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| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 |
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| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 |
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| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 |
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| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 |
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| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 |
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| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Carlye! It came in at #4,574, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1944–1949, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Carlye is popular in 1991
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,850 · 1 in 43,588
Best ever in a state: #741 in Missouri, 1996.
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| California | #2,850 | 6 | 1 in 43,588 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Carlye
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2017
- Debuted 1944
- Peaked 1976 at #1,968 (45 births)
- Births halved by 1978, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 32,558 girls born in 1976 were named Carlye (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 287,744 girls born in 2017 (0.00%)
- 35.7% of all girls named Carlye (381) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 10 | #4,574 (1944) | #4,935 |
| 1950s | 23 | #4,315 (1950) | #5,353 |
| 1960s | 24 | #4,896 (1963) | #5,924 |
| 1970s | 161 | #1,968 (1976) | #4,220 |
| 1980s | 252 | #2,770 (1982) | #3,535 |
| 1990s | 381 | #2,451 (1996) | #3,165 |
| 2000s | 190 | #3,785 (2001) | #7,095 |
| 2010s | 25 | #12,276 (2010) | #14,523 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Carlye in 1991
Top girls' names in 1991
More about 1991
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1,875,007 girls got a published name in 1991; 1 in 49,342 of them was named Carlye, which outranked 80.7% of the 15,466 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,935Stephen39
- #2,935Trudy39
- #2,935Xochilt39
- #2,989Carlye38
- #2,989Ashlin38
- #2,989Celestine38
- #2,989Chandelle38
- #3,036Analicia37
- #3,036Azaria37
- #3,036Britanie37
Tied with 46 names at #2,989; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.