Carey

[hexagon01]

My boyfriend and I love Carey for a girl, I was just wondering how you would pronounce it?

[pinkyredrose]

Care-ee.

[Pluto30]

The Cary's (this spelling) I know are all men.

I'd pronounce it like care-ee.

Carrie is a feminine name. Cary, I think, is a masculine name.

[teaandakitkat]

That's a family name of mine, but we never used it because it was a bit of a mouthful with our surname.

I don't know how to write how we pronounce it, it's like Care-i

[BratFarrarsPony]

I knew a Carey and the way she said it made it indisguishisable from Kerry

[hexagon01]

Pluto, there was a woman called Carey in a band I like, and the actress Carey Mulligan so there's definitely precedent.

I pronounce it Care-ee but I realised I don't think I've ever heard it said out loud. Just thought I should probably just look up an interview with Carey Mulligan on YouTube or something.

Thanks for your responses

[llangennith]

Why not Carrie?

[Raines100]

I know a female Carey. Most people think her name is Kerry. It's nice enough, but I find the long a at the beginning awkward somehow, like Aaron instead of Arran.

[busyrascal]

Just makes me think of Jim Carey.

[SomewhereOutThere]

I've namechanged to let you know this is my name. If people comment on it, it's to say how much they like it. (Though those who dislike it wouldn't tell me.)

And yes, it's pronounced CARE-ee.

As opposed to CA-ree (Carrie) or KE-ree (Kerry). In my (Southern English/RP) accent it is clearly distinguishable but yes in some accents it sounds very similar.

Carrie is generally short for Carolyn/Caroline but Carey can stand alone, or be a nickname for Clare/Clarissa/Carissa.

[SwedishEdith]

I know an older bloke with this name. I find it quite awkward to say as well with the long /a/ sound. I used to know a Karen who pronounced it Kaaaren - I found that awkward as well.

[SausageSoda]

Carey I would pronounce the same as Jim Carey vile man Care-ee

I much prefer Carrie (Ka-ree) for a girl.

I imagine that Carey would just lead to a lifetime of people thinking her name was Kerry when verbally introduced and having to continually correct them.

[TroysMammy]

Welsh spelling Ceri (ker ree) is an unisex name or as my DM once said "it's a bisexual name .

[SpunkyMummy]

troy

I really like Ceri.

Bisexual name

[Sophronia]

I prefer Cary/Carey for a boy, like Cary Grant.

[VanessaBet]

I know of an adult female Carey. Care-ee, like Mariah

[hopscotchegg]

Carey Mulligan pronounced it Carr-ee not Carey.

[Huppopapa]

Ceri is a legit Welsh name pronounced more or less like Kerry and if one were Welsh, a wholly sensible choice.
Cary is almost unique to Mr. Grant of that ilk.
Carey sounds like caries though, and I wouldn't like to saddle a child with a name meaning tooth decay. (Along the same lines, I am constantly inwardly appalled at children called 'Jade' as any student of Eng. Lit. knows that a jade is a knackered horse or, more usually, a woman of easy repute.)