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The name Cary is of English origin, and means stream. The table below indicates the number of times the name Cary has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Cary**
Use of the Name Cary for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
22,904	16,050	2,205	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Cary has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Cary last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1992, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Cary**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	429	17
1881	507	12
1882	517	13	753	7
1883	604	10
1884	670	9
1885	443	17
1886	520	13
1887	641	9
1888	486	16
1889	592	11
1890	675	9
1891	715	8
1892	648	11
1893	462	16
1894	468	18
1895	644	11
1896	426	21
1897	656	11
1898	706	10
1899	795	8
1900	755	12
1901	687	10
1902	658	12
1903	798	9
1904	693	12
1905	671	13
1906	595	16
1907	706	14
1908	748	13
1909	532	24
1910	602	23
1911	674	22
1912
1913	931	28
1914
1915	839	54
1916	989	42
1917	858	56
1918	943	50
1919	866	58
1920	856	63
1921	787	73
1922	906	59
1923	885	59
1924	887	61
1925	944	51
1926
1927	926	55
1928
1929
1930	907	54
1931	971	46
1932	993	44
1933	839	54
1934	811	59
1935	789	61
1936	650	80
1937	701	73
1938	586	100
1939	589	96
1940	502	135
1941	444	173
1942	428	205
1943	380	260
1944	381	246
1945	386	239
1946	372	302
1947	363	355
1948	319	436
1949	325	444
1950	324	441
1951	324	445
1952	325	458
1953	343	404
1954	321	505
1955	335	491
1956	314	555	888	126
1957	268	787	979	112
1958	313	590	917	126
1959	283	776	926	127
1960	286	758	990	118
1961	314	625	980	121
1962	275	783
1963	279	767	972	119
1964	282	748
1965	285	690
1966	264	764
1967	289	629	970	111
1968	286	662	925	125
1969	304	622	939	128
1970	331	568	863	155
1971	334	545	779	186
1972	387	413	836	157
1973	396	384	843	154
1974	459	306	777	177
1975	405	359	721	205
1976	430	325	782	182
1977	496	270	872	165
1978	544	231
1979	610	197
1980	625	195
1981	629	186
1982	652	177
1983	682	157
1984	644	178
1985	624	198
1986	666	181
1987	682	177
1988	745	161
1989	750	172
1990	816	156
1991	880	143
1992	967	124
Totals:		22,904		2,601

During the last 125 years, parents have used Cary as a boy's name about 89% of the time and less frequently (about 10% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Cary appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 108 times during the last 125 years.

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