Is Carmie a girl or a boy name?

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I absolutely love the name Carmie for a boy, but my hubby loves it for a girl. What do people think? Is it more suited to a girl or a boy? Could a grown man be a Carmie?

Carmy is a boy in The Bear

I can only see it as nickname for something like Carmen.

Sorry, can’t say I’m a fan either way, but I think it sounds more of a girls name.

Carmine is a boys’ name and could be known as Carmie.

My first thought was a diminutive of Carmen or Carmel (f) or Carmine (m), similar to how Charlie could be Charles or Charlotte, Frankie could be Francis or Frances/Francesca, etc. On its own it seems a little informal/young for a grown man to me - but then Archie, Freddie, Alfie, etc. are very popular, so why not?

Boys name. Makes me think of mobsters! (There’s a Carmie in The Sopranos, I think)

Sounds made up

Is it a name at all?

About to say the same thing!

Sorry OP but it makes me think of an Italian restaurant in New York.

Is it even a name?

Sounds like the name of someone who gets bullied in school for their name I'm afraid, boy or girl.

An Italian American boy. Probably short for Carmine

Sounds like a shortening of Carmel to me, so girl.

Neither

Carmie reads like a nickname - like Homer in the Simpsons is "Homie".

Could be short for Carmine (but don't call your child that, the Italian ones are all about 90 except the ones who've been named after Grandad) Or Carmen, or Carmela.
All a bit old fashioned tbh.
If you want to just go with Carmie, it sounds more female than male.

If you like it, go for it. Short for Carmine, masc, whenever I’ve heard it, but you could go for another gangster name as her Sunday name - Carmella! I can’t imagine she’d get picked on for Carmie round here (though it depends where you live maybe) kids at DCs schools with parents from all over the world, lots of lovely individual nick-names and diminutives.

Boy but a shortened version of something else not just a name itself

Sounds like a character in a mobster movie but it could be short for Carmela or Carmine so works for boys or girls I guess!

I know a few Camrie's (female) but never heard of Carmie.

Could be Carmel, Carmen or Carmine.

I would assume female (Carmel etc)

Cammie could be male or female but I would assume that a male might become Cam later.

I would assume it is a girl's name, similar to Carmen, Carmine, Cammie etc.

Or short for Carmichael? It's dreadful as a stand alone name though, regardless of sex or gender.