Carey

At the 2020 census, 53,736 Americans bore the surname Carey — 614th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 5,562.

By the numbers

People: 53,736
Rank: 614th
How common: 1 in 5,562
Per 100,000: 18.0

Where the name comes from

As a German surname, Americanized from Gehrig, Gehring.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Carey described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 77.8%
Black, not Hispanic 13.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Carey

Drew Carey (born 1958)American comedian
William Carey (1761–1834)English Baptist missionary and Particular Baptist minister
Peter Carey (born 1943)Australian novelist
Emily Carey (born 2003)British actor
Harry Carey (1878–1947)American actor
Danny Carey (born 1961)American drummer
Mary Carey (born 1980)American pornographic actress
Harry Carey (1921–2012)American actor

People named Carey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Carey

Also a first name

Carey has been given to 29,621 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1957. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.