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Carly

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United States//ˈkɑɹli//

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from the Germanic languages.

    She introduced herself. I said, 'Where'd you get a name like Carly?' and she said, from her aunt.

Etymology

A feminine form of Carl with -y, taken to use in the latter half of the 20th century; also a pet form of Carla, Carlene and Carlotta.

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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).