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Cary

boy name · Welsh origin · 2 syllables

Meaning

variant of Carey, from a Welsh river name

Popularity, 1890–2024

1890speak 1940s2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Cary peaked in the 1940s.

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