The College of Arms issued a confirmation of Arms on 11 November 1915. Hover over or click on the dots that represent a year to see how many babies were given the name for that year, for both genders, if available. for Cornwall records several Carey births; some early ones: John Cari, St Just, 1550,However, an alternative origin for some families of West Country Car(e)y may be, as with the Careys of Guernsey in the Channel Islands, Norman French or Breton. The name Carey is in the following categories: Celtic Names, Irish Names, Surnames Names. Carey appears in French archives: Claude Carey, b. Saône et Loire, Bourgogne, 1590;It is clear that most instances of the above are variants of (de) Carrey, for example the Carrey family of 'Carey' in present-day France has approximately 1,674 bearers, according to one source, and is found mostly, not counting the Paris area, in The Guernsey Carey name likely evolved from one of the de Carrey lines of mainland Normandy. Principal counties were Cork, Dublin, Tipperary, Mayo & Kerry.Cary is a Somerset surname possibly from one of the places therein such as Car(e)y is also a Devonshire name, possibly from the place in Devon on the River Carey, just east of Launceston, recorded as 'Kari' (Car(e)y is also a surname in Cornwall, for which there are several possible derivations, which must also apply to the adjacent county of Devon : 1) one of several places in Cornwall with the Brythonic element 'car/caer'-'fort/enclosure', such as Kerrow, Cairo (there exist many antique site 'Caer' type names as in 'Caer Kief') – a source also of the Carew surname; 2) a local topographical name from root The Mormon I.G.I. They appear mainly in London/Middlesex, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Glamorgan, Monmouth, Kent, Northumberland, Cheshire, Oxfordshire, Essex etc.The 1891 Census of England shows the highest numbers of Careys in Lancashire & Yorkshire (mainly West Yorks), with 746 and 275 respectively, followed by London (978), then Kent/Surrey/Sussex (866 together), and only then the South West with Somerset (347), Devon (98) and Cornwall (9).The 1891 Census of Scotland lists the top two areas for Careys as Lanarkshire (mainly the Glasgow area, 153) and Angus (mainly Dundee, 78), both areas of high Irish immigration; the 1891 Census for Wales shows 221, almost all in South Wales (Glamorgan, Monmouth etc.) The different meanings of the name Carey are:The name Carey is in the following categories: Celtic Names, Irish Names, Surnames Names. For Keary: most in Tipperary (11), Dublin (8) and Westmeath (7) with a total of 64.A conservative approximate total number of bearers in the 1850s may be got by multiplying the total households by an average per household of 4 (a minimal figure given the size of families then), giving 5, 364 (this figure not including other variants like Keary). My name is Carey and I was always told it was derived from the Welsh Caer which means castle (Cearleon etc.) It has same or different meanings in other countries and languages. There are several Carews, also 'Papists', in Cloneen, Toom and Fethard.Throughout this period and the following centuries, as noted by the Registrar General, R. E. Matheson in his report of 1901, surnames in Ireland had become altered in form by regional dialects and pronunciation, the anomalies of anglicisation and the effects of illiteracy, so as to occur in a bewildering variety of forms, even within the same families.By the time of the 'Primary Valuation (1847–64)' of Richard Griffith, County Tipperary had the most Carey households (239) followed by County Cork (177), County Limerick (108), County Dublin (94) and County Mayo (81), out of a total of Carey households in Ireland of 1,308. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database. We estimate that there are at least 214700 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.003% of the population. To this has been assimilated an Irish patronymic, Ó Ciardha ‘descendant of the dark one Name Carey Categories. Name: Carey Gender: Unisex (Male and Female) Usage: Carey, of scottish-gaelic origin, is a very popular first name.
Her name was derived from Carey’s inspiration, Marilyn Monroe. Matheson, Preface to 'Varieties and Synonyms of Surnames & Christian Names in Ireland', Dublin, 1901Woulfe P., 'Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall' or 'Irish Names and Surnames', Dublin, 1923 online at Dr Edward MacLysaght, 'Irish Families', Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1985. Popularity statistics for the surname Carey Carey in England/Wales. The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Carey for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.: 1 Irish: transferred use of the surname Carey, which has two origins.