Meaning and history
From an Irish surname, the Anglicized form of Ó Ciardha, a patronymic derived from the given name Ciardha.
20062006: 32 births, rank #3,306
2007: 39 births, rank #2,974
2008: 27 births, rank #3,823
2009: 28 births, rank #3,721
2010: 26 births, rank #3,894
20112011: 29 births, rank #3,605
2012: 28 births, rank #3,714
2013: 24 births, rank #4,064
2014: 21 births, rank #4,538
2015: 23 births, rank #4,295
20162016: 24 births, rank #4,199
2017: 22 births, rank #4,466
2018: 23 births, rank #4,354
2019: 18 births, rank #5,153
2020: 12 births, rank #6,620
20212021: 7 births, rank #9,714
2022: 11 births, rank #7,262
2023: 12 births, rank #6,897
2024: 18 births, rank #5,241
20252025: 13 births, rank #6,446
Carey moved from #920 to #967 for boys between 1991 and 1992. Its highest annual birth count came in 1957, with 461 births.