Carey is a unisex first name. It is given slightly more often to boys than to girls.
At least in the US, the name Carey is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Carey each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Carey will meet someone with the same name. So, Carey is a very special name!
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their child Carey annualy. This means that there have been children named Carey who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus people named Carey have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Carey even more than any other time: in 1975, it holds its present record of #441 in the ranking of the most popular first names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Carey was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Carey has never been ranked higher than #441. In 2022, it rivaled the 11,015 names that preceded it on the list. In total, 7 children named Carey were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Carey were born, there have been 225 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for first names. This is because 5.7% of all common given names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K.
With five letters, the name Carey is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 5.7% of all first names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters.
If your name is Carey and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Carey, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Rocket
Elephant
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Carey
Carey
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
R
E
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
A
R
E
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Carey sounds like this:
