Carrie is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
Carrie is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,603 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,602 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 222,550 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Carrie. That is 0.07 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Carrie is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Carrie for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Carrie is therefore one of the 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Carrie is a very special name that peaked in popularity over 100 years ago in the 19th century, ranking in the top 100 girls' names in our SmartGenius first name statistics: With #19 Carrie has never been more popular than back in 1881.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Carrie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Carrie is one of them. However, Carrie is not equally widespread in all states, but people in South Carolina seem to particularly fancy this name – the 9,113 women called Carrie who live here are 0,414% of all female residents and push their name up to #48, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in South Carolina.
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 girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Carrie is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Carrie 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 Carrie, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Rocket
Rocket
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Carrie
Carrie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
R
R
I
E
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
R
I
E
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. Carrie sounds like this:
