Cary

Where Cary comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Cary.

  • Vowel-ended
Cary through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #425 among boys, with 17 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1904
    Cary Grant born
    British-American actor
  3. 1904
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
  4. 1962
    Cary Elwes born
    British actor
  5. 1966
    Peak, #264
    763 babies named Cary, its best rank.
  6. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #459.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surnames.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Caroline.
  • A number of places in the United States:
  • An unorganised township in Aroostook County, Maine.
  • A town in Sharkey County, Mississippi.
  • A town in Wake County, Chatham County and Durham County, North Carolina.
Namesakes
  • Cary Grant · British-American actor, 1904–1986
  • Cary Elwes · British actor, born 1962
  • Cary Joji Fukunaga · American filmmaker, born 1977
  • Cary Guffey · child actor, born 1972
  • Cary Stayner · American serial killer, born 1961

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.