Carlie

Where Carlie comes from

The dictionaries list Carlie as a given name — a female given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Carly — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1883
    First appearance
    #817 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1972
    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.
  3. 1990
    Carlie Casey born
    American actress
  4. 1998
    Peak, #469
    549 babies named Carlie — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2000
    Carlie Hanson born
    American singer
  6. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,045.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Carly.
Namesakes
  • Carlie Hanson · American singer, born 2000
  • Carlie Casey · American actress, born 1990

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.