Carly

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Carly is a given name, a feminine form of Carl. It is also a pet form of given names such as Carla. Variant spellings include Carley, Carlie, and Carli, as well as Karly, Karley and Karlie. Carli is also used as an Italian male name.

The name became popular in large part, if not primarily, because of the success of Carly Simon's music in the 1970s - its first appearance in the top 1000 US baby names was in 1973, soon after her first success. It was most popular in the UK, Canada and Australia in the 1980s and in the US during the 1990s. Over 2,000 American girls were named Carly each year between 1991 and 1998.

Carly and its variants may refer to:

People

Carly Binding (born 1978), New Zealand pop singer- songwriter

Carlie Boland, American politician

Carly Booth (born 1992), Scottish professional golfer

Carly Chaikin (born 1990), American actress

Carlie Christensen, American lawyer and U.S. Attorney

Carly Cole (born 1984), British reality television contestant, fitness trainer and model

Karley Scott Collins (born 1999), American actress and voice actress

Carly Colón (born 1979), (male) Puerto Rican - Canadian professional wrestler

Carly Craig (born 1980), American actress

Carly Dixon (born 1973), Australian Olympic judoka

Carly Fiorina (born 1954), American business executive and politician

Carly Flynn, New Zealand journalist and television presenter

Carly Foulkes (born 1988), Canadian model and actress

Carly Gullickson (born 1986), American professional tennis player

Carly Hillman (born 1983), British actress

Carly Hunt (born 1981), English footballer

Carlie Ikonumou (born 1990), Australian football (soccer) player

Carly Janiga (born 1988), American gymnast

Carly Rae Jepsen (born 1985), Canadian recording artist and singer-songwriter

Karlie Kloss (born 1992), American model

Carly Lyn, American artist and filmmaker

Carly McKillip (born 1989), Canadian actress and musician

Carly Melin (born 1985), American politician

Carly Milne, Canadian writer

Carly Paradis (born 1980), Canadian composer and pianist

Carly Patterson (born 1988), American gymnast and singer

Carly Piper (born 1983), American Olympic swimmer

Carly Pope (born 1980), Canadian actress

Karlie Redd, American hip-hop artist, dancer, model and actress

Karly Robertson (born 1989), Scottish figure skater

Karly Rothenberg (born 1962), German-American film and television actress

Carly Schroeder (born 1990), German-American film and television actress

Carly Simon (born 1945), American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author

Carly Smithson (born 1983), Irish American soul / pop rock singer-songwriter and actress

Carly Rose Sonenclar (born 1999), American singer, songwriter, and child actress

Carly Telford (born 1987), English international football goalkeeper

Carly Wilson (born 1982), Australian basketball player

Pseudonyms

"Carly Phillips", pen name of American novelist Karen Drogin (born 1965)

Fictional characters

Carly Cardinal, mascot for the National Arbor Day Foundation

Carlie Cooper, in comic books centered on Spider-Man published by Marvel Comics

Carly Corinthos, on the American soap opera General Hospital

Carli D'Amato, on the British TV series The Inbetweeners, played by Emily Head

Carly Manning, on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives

Carly Morris, on the Australian soap opera Home and Away

Carly Shay, on the Nickelodeon series iCarly

Carly Snyder, on the American soap opera As the World Turns

Carly Wicks, on the BBC soap opera Eastenders

Carly Witwicky, a character in the Transformers franchise

Karly, a doll in the Groovy Girls line, by Manhattan Toy

References

Carly Wikipedia

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