Carry

Where Carry comes from

Carry hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    Carry van Bruggen born
    Dutch writer, editor
  2. 1881
    First appearance
    #740 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1884
    Peak, #731
    9 babies named Carry — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1953
    Carry van Gool born
    Dutch archer
  6. 1964
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Carry van Bruggen · Dutch writer, editor, 1881–1932
  • Carry van Gool · Dutch archer, born 1953
  • Carry Slee · Dutch writer, born 1949
  • Carry Tefsen · Dutch presenter, actor and television actor, born 1938
  • Carry Brachvogel · German writer, 1864–1942

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.