About the name Carley
Carley belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Carley first appears in Social Security records in 1921. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #376 in 1996, and in 2024 53 babies received the name — 16,859 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.