68%RatingSave Gender Masculine & Feminine Usage English Pronounced Pron. KEHR-ee [key·IPA] Meaning & HistoryExpand Links Variant of Carey. A famous bearer was the British-American actor Cary Grant (1904-1986). Related Names User SubmissionCary PopularityDetails Last ranked #961 in 1992 (m) #872 in 1977 (f) United States People think this name isRate·Details informal refined strange simple serious nerdy Categories child actors, country music singers, currently out of the US top 1000, isograms, Poldark characters, stage names, Stephen King characters, The Man Who Came to Dinner characters, The Sopranos characters, y vowels