Carlie

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Carlie: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Carlie: Recorded since 1996, it reached #344 in 1999, and it stood at #5,581 in 2021.

3registrars recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
26years from first to last
#344highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2021

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#635
1997	#820
1998	#817
1999	#736
2000	#897
2001	#1170
2002	#1245
2003	#1269
2004	#1106
2005	#1343
2006	#1983
2007	#1234
2008	#1641
2009	#1596
2010	#2235
2011	#2893
2012	#2969
2013	#3160
2014	#5691
2015	#4103
2016	#2966
2017	#5765
2018	#3985
2021	#5581

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 24 of the 26 years from 1996 to 2021.

In 2016: #750 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2966 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2021 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #635 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1998–1999
Highest recorded position: #344 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 1999 (recorded 1998–1999).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2021
Most recently recorded at #5581 among girls in England and Wales, in 2021.
England and Wales · Girls

Carlie appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 24 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 362 births with the name.

Carlie across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Carlie's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#635 (1996)	#635 (1996)	#5581 (2021)	24 of 26	362 (1996–2021)	38 (1996)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#465 (2000)	#465 (2000)	#750 (2016)	9 of 17	34 (2000–2016)	4 (2000)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#351 (1998)	#344 (1999)	#344 (1999)	2 of 2	6 (1998–1999)	3 (1998)

Carlie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Carlie in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	123	4 of 10	31
2000sbusiest	178	10 of 10	18
2010s	58	9 of 10	6
2020s	3	1 of 10	3

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 18 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Carlie appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #344 in Northern Ireland in 1999.

Carlie's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2966	8	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2893	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2235	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1596	17	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1641	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1234	22	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1983	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1343	17	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1106	21	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1269	17	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1245	16	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1170	17	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#897	24	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#736	31	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#817	27	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#820	27	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#635	38	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#344	3	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#351	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	4	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#465	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2021, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #344, first reached in 1999.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 38 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1998, and 4 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Carleigh · #661, 9y
Carley · #339, 30y
Carlito · #2174, 19y
Carlo · #299, 32y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Cathryn · #344, 26y
Kiah · #344, 28y
Catrina · #343, 27y
Hashim · #345, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Ismaeel · #344, 29y
Kiah · #344, 28y
Uzair · #344, 30y
Vinny · #344, 30y

Carlie was ranked #344 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 1999. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Carlie and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Carlie without appearing here.

Carlie moved ahead of

Kristy Compare
In 2017 they stood at #5691 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3985 and #5666.
Bernadette Compare
In 2012 they stood at #768 and #677 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #747 and #894.
Denise Compare
In 2012 they stood at #768 and #612 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #747 and #894.
Donna Compare
In 2012 they stood at #768 and #510 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #747 and #894.

Moved ahead of Carlie

Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3160 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #5691 and #1628.
Diane Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2966 and #3609 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2201.
Eabha Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2966 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2201.
Francis Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2966 and #3214 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2502.

Moved the opposite way to Carlie

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Carlie went from #635 to #5581 while Ada went from #2683 to #44.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Carlie went from #635 to #5581 while Alma went from #2096 to #267.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Carlie went from #635 to #5581 while Alyssa went from #783 to #211.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Carlie went from #635 to #5581 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1102.

Moved the same way as Carlie

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Carlie went from #635 to #5581 and Abigail from #21 to #105.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Carlie went from #635 to #5581 and Aimee from #70 to #1195.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Carlie went from #635 to #5581 and Aisling from #440 to #1569.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Carlie went from #635 to #5581 and Alex from #161 to #1866.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #344 in Northern Ireland in 1999. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Carlie

Carlie at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Carlie across 3 official records

Carlie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Carlie appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Carlie

Carlie and the names beside it

Carlie moved ahead of

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Carlie at a glance

Carlie across 3 official records

Carlie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Carlie appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Carlie

Carlie and the names beside it

Carlie moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Carlie

Moved the opposite way to Carlie

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