Carrie is the English diminutive of Caroline — from Carolus / Charles, Old Germanic karl (free man). A top-15 US baby name from 1880 to 1907. Carrie Nation (1846-1911) — American temperance hatchet-wielding activist; her saloon-smashing crusade helped enable Prohibition. Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) — president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association during the final push to the 19th Amendment (1920); founder of the League of Women Voters. Carrie Underwood (born 1983) — *winner of the fourth season of American Idol (2005); the best-selling artist in American Idol history with 70+ million records sold; eight Grammy Awards. Carrie Fisher (1956-2016) — Princess Leia (covered separately). Carrie Bradshaw — Sex and the City* (1998-2004), Sarah Jessica Parker.
Featured throughout American culture; subject of Stephen King's Carrie (1974).
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Carrie reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.