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Summary
- No one named Carrie appears in the Bible, and the name has no Hebrew meaning.
- Carrie is a pet form of Caroline, the French feminine of Carolus, the Latin form of Charles, from a Germanic word meaning “man.”
- The gloss “free” draws on the related Old English ceorl, which could mean a free man; the root means “man.”
- Carrie ranked 20th among American girls’ names in 1880 and 1881, rose again to 28th in 1976 and 1977, and left the top 1,000 after 2007.
- Carrie Judd Montgomery (1858–1946), healed in 1879 after prayer based on James 5:15, became a leading evangelist of the divine healing movement.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Behind the Name, “Carrie,” “Caroline,” “Carolyn,” “Charles,” “Carey” and “Kerry,” with United States popularity figures from Social Security Administration data. https://www.behindthename.com/name/carrie
- “Carrie (name),” Wikipedia, on Carrie as a pet form of Caroline or Carolyn and its spellings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_(name)
- “Churl,” Wikipedia, on Old English ceorl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churl
- “Carrie Judd Montgomery,” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Judd_Montgomery
- Scripture quotation: James 5:15, King James Version.
