Name

Name CAREY

Between 1880 and 2022 there were 23,528 births of Carey in the countries below, which represents an average of 166 births of children bearing the first name Carey per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 0 birth.

Other languages :
En Français

Prénom Carey
In Italiano

Nome Carey

Variation : Cary

Information about the first name Carey

The first name Carey has been assigned to:

57.98% to boys
42.02% to girls

The country where the first name Carey is the most common is:

United State of America

This first name is on trend: Both (Unisex)

This first name has 5 letters including 3 vowels and 2 consonants

Anagrams of the first name Carey

An anagram is a word that contains the same letters of another word. Here is the list of first names which are an anagram of Carey : Ceyar, Cyera, Eracy, Eryca, Racey, Raecy, Rayce, Reacy, Yacer

Carey in Japanese ^*

Romaji	kyarii
Katakana	キャリー
Hiragana	きゃりー
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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Carey in binary language

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Origin and meaning of name Carey

English

Etymology

As a German surname, Americanized from Gehrig, Gehring.
As a Welsh surname, variant of Carew.
As an English surname, from placenames derived from Proto-Brythonic *karɨd (“to love”).
As an Irish surname, from mac Fhiachra (“descendant of Fiachra”), from préachán (“crow”).
Also as an Irish surname, from the root of the name Kerry.

Alternative forms

Cary

Anagrams

Cayer, Racey, craye

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɛəɹi/
(General American) enPR: kârʹē
(Mary–marry–merry distinction) IPA(key): /ˈkɛɚ.i/
(Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA(key): /ˈkɛɹ.i/
Rhymes: -ɛəɹi

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Taíno carey.

Noun

carey m (plural careyes)
hawksbill turtle
(uncountable) tortoiseshell

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /kaˈɾei/ [kaˈɾei̯]
(Peruvian)
Rhymes: -ei
Syllabification: ca‧rey

Noun (Descendants)

→ Catalan: carei
→ Tagalog: karay

Popularity of the name Carey

Number of CAREY births per year

Popularity of the name Carey

Total births of Carey by country

		Births with the first name Carey
Country		Boys Girls
	United State of America 1880 - 2022	12,696 9,235
	Ontario 1913 - 2019	419 345
	British Columbia 1919 - 2022	194 78
	New Zealand 1900 - 2022	140 68
	United Kingdom 1996 - 2021	46 75
	Alberta 1980 - 2022	66 31
	Australia 1930 - 2022	54 36
	Quebec 1980 - 2022	19 5
	Switzerland 1909 - 2021	5 6
	Italy 1999 - 2021	2 2
	Ireland 1964 - 2022	0 3
	Chili 2010 - 2021	0 2
	Czechoslovakia 1900 - 2016	1 0