Carley
KAHR-lee
Popularity
#3048
Letters
6
Syllables
2
Origin
Germanic
Total Births
17,269
Peak Year
#718 in 1998
First Recorded
1912
Style
Cute & Playful
Spelling
Easy to spell
What It Means
A variant of Carly, which is a feminine form of Carl, meaning 'free man' in Germanic.
Numerology
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