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Carey

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈkɛəɹi//
  • Australia//ˈkeː.ɹi//
  • New Zealand//ˈkeəɹi//
  • //ˈkɛɚ.i//
  • //ˈkɛɹ.i//

A placename: A hamlet in Ballingham parish and Little Dewchurch parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5631).

proper noun

  1. 1

    A placename: A hamlet in Ballingham parish and Little Dewchurch parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5631).

  2. 2

    A placename: A place in the United States, including: An unincorporated community in Greene County, Georgia.

  3. 3

    A placename: A place in the United States, including: A minor city in Blaine County, Idaho.

  4. 4

    A placename: A place in the United States, including: A village in Crawford Township, Wyandot County, Ohio.

  5. 5

    A placename: A place in the United States, including: An unincorporated community in Childress County, Texas.

  6. 6

    A placename: A place in the United States, including: A town in Iron County, Wisconsin.

  7. 7

    A placename: An island of Nunavut, Canada, in James Bay off the coast of Quebec; in full, Carey Island.

  8. 8

    A surname. An English habitational surname from either of these placenames.

  9. 9

    A surname. A surname from Irish, anglicized from the Gaelic Ó Ciardha.

  10. 10

    A surname. A Celtic surname from Welsh, derived from Carew.

  11. 11

    A unisex given name. A male given name transferred from the surname.

  12. 12

    A unisex given name. A female given name, variant of Cary.

Etymology

* As a German surname, Americanized from Gehrig, Gehring. * As a Welsh surname, variant of Carew. * As an English surname, from placenames derived from Proto-Brythonic *karɨd (“to love”). * As an Irish surname, from mac Fhiachra (“descendant of Fiachra”), from préachán (“crow”). * Also as an Irish surname, from the root of the name Kerry.

Forms

plural
Careys
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).