Carrie is the English diminutive of Caroline — from Carolus / Charles, Old Germanic karl (free man). **A top-15 US baby name from 1880 to 1907**. **Carrie Nation (1846-1911)** — American temperance hatchet-wielding activist; her saloon-smashing crusade helped enable Prohibition. **Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947)** — president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association during the final push to the 19th Amendment (1920); founder of the League of Women Voters. **Carrie Underwood (born 1983)** — **winner of the fourth season of *American Idol* (2005); the best-selling artist in American Idol history with 70+ million records sold**; eight Grammy Awards. **Carrie Fisher (1956-2016)** — Princess Leia (covered separately). **Carrie Bradshaw** — *Sex and the City* (1998-2004), Sarah Jessica Parker.
Featured throughout American culture; subject of Stephen King's *Carrie* (1974).
Carrie reduces to one — the number of free woman.