Entry № 1787 · English origin

Carrie Carrie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAIR-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Free woman (Carrie Underwood; Carrie Bradshaw; Carrie Fisher)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "free woman (carrie underwood; carrie bradshaw; carrie fisher)".

Carrie is the English diminutive of Caroline — from Carolus / Charles, Old Germanic karl (free man). Carrie Fisher (1956-2016) — Princess Leia (covered separately).

Free woman. Carrie Chapman Catt led the suffrage fight; Carrie Underwood is Idol's bestselling alum.

The name in its native script.

Carrie
Transliteration
Carrie
Pronunciation
/ ˈkær.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Carrie stands.

Carrie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Carries before her.

Real people
Carrie Underwood
American country singer.
born 1983
Carrie Chapman Catt
American suffragist.
1859 – 1947
Carrie Nation
American temperance activist.
1846 – 1911
In fiction
Carrie Bradshaw
Sex and the City.
1998
Carrie White
Stephen King's Carrie.
1974

Names connected to Carrie.

The number behind Carrie.

9

The Giver

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.