Given name & surname
Carrick
“from the rocks”
Carrick is used as a given name and a surname. One Irish interpretation is “from the rocks.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Irish interpretation is “from the rocks.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Irish.
How it developed
From Irish carraig, from Scottish Gaelic carraig, from Cornish karrek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Carrick through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 600
- 600 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 35 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #10,903 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −68%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,903 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 67.6% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 35 in 2014. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 617 as a first name in 2020; 3,700 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Carrick’s family of names
In English usage, Carrick as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Craig. Carrick has a related form in Caric. Carrick has a related form in Carick.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Karrickvariant · English
- Caryckvariant
- Carykvariant
- Carycvariant
- Caricvariant
- Carikvariant
- Carickvariant
- Carrycvariant
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Carrick
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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