Carrie

Where Carrie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Carrie.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Carrie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #20 among girls, with 949 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #20
    958 babies named Carrie, its best rank.
  3. 1956
    Carrie Fisher born
    American actress, writer and screenwriter
  4. 1977
    The comeback
    Back to #28 after sinking to #241 in 1950.
  5. 1983
    Carrie Underwood born
    American singer and actor
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Caroline, also used as a formal given name.
Namesakes
  • Carrie Fisher · American actress, writer and screenwriter, 1956–2016
  • Carrie Underwood · American singer and actor, born 1983
  • Carrie Lam · Hong Kong politician, born 1957
  • Carrie Chapman Catt · American social reformer, suffragist, 1859–1947
  • Carrie Snodgress · American actress, 1945–2004

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.