Carrie
About Carrie
Carrie lives on mainly on the screen, as the new/old antiheroine of Stephen King's classic Carrie, as turn-of-the-21st-century diva Carrie Bradshaw of Sex & The City, and as Claire Danes' Emmy-winning character Carrie Mathison of Homeland.
In real life, however, Carrie dropped off the Top 1000 a handful of years ago and, while the name retains some charm, shows no signs of making an imminent comeback. Try Cara instead.
As of October 2026, Carrie ranked #2726 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #20 in 1880, Nameberry popularity #921.
Editor's take: The name Carrie is a girl's name of English origin meaning "free man".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,490 | 150 | 84 |
| 2015 | #1,685 | 126 | 70.6 |
| 2016 | #1,561 | 143 | 80.7 |
| 2017 | #1,654 | 130 | 75.3 |
| 2018 | #1,778 | 115 | 67.6 |
| 2019 | #2,046 | 93 | 55.4 |
| 2020 | #2,197 | 82 | 50.7 |
| 2021 | #2,348 | 77 | 46.9 |
| 2022 | #2,581 | 68 | 41.5 |
| 2023 | #2,590 | 68 | 42.4 |
| 2024 | #3,050 | 53 | 32.7 |
| 2025 | #2,726 | 63 | 39.2 |
World rankings
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Carrie on lists
Famous Carries
- Carrie Frances Fisher
American actress and author
- Carrie Rachel Brownstein
American musician and actress
- Carrie Amelia Moore Nation
American temperance leader
- Carrie Preston
American Actress
- Carrie Marie Underwood
American country music singer
- Caroline Vanessa "Carrie" Grant
English vocal coach and TV presenter
- Carrie Hope Fletcher
English singer, actress and Youtuber
- Carrie Minetta Jacobs
Bond, American singer and songwriter
- Carrie Clinton Lane Chapman Catt
American suffragist
- Caroline Michelle "Carrie" Prejean
American model; Miss USA runner,up 2009
- Carrie Bickmore
Australian TV presenter
- Carrie
Ann Inaba, American dancer and TV personality
- Carrie Lucas
American R&B singer
- Carrie
Anne Moss, Canadian actress
- Caroline Celestia "Carrie" Ingalls Swanzey
sister of American novelist Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Caroline "Carrie" Snodgress
American actress
- Carrie Anne Savage
American voice actress
- Carrie Sheinberg
American skier
- Caroline "Carrie" St. Louis
american actress.
- Carrie Coon
American Actress
Carrie in pop culture
- Carrie Bradshaw
main character in TV's "Sex and the City"
- Carietta "Carrie" White
main character in movie/book "Carrie" by Stephen King
- Carrie Donovan
character in TV's "Townies"
- Carrie Mathison
main character in TV's "Homeland"
- Carrie Heffernan
character in TV's "King of Queens"
- Carrie Rawlins
character in movie "Bedknobs and Broomsticks"
- Carrie "Big Boo" Black
character in TV's "Orange is the New Black"
- Carrie Bishop
minor character in TV's "Veronica Mars"
- Caroline Forbes
character in TV's "Vampire Diaries," rarely called Care/Carrie
- Carrie Anne
character in movie "House at the End of the Street"
- Dr. Carrie Roman
character on TV's Nurse Jackie
- Carrie
psycho nanny on TV's "One Tree Hill"
- Carrie Sullivan
character in Rachael Allen's "The Revenge Playbook"
- "Carrie Anne
" song by The Hollies
- Carrie
a mute slave in Octavia Butler's "Kindred"