Carlisle
Carlisle is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 36 births. Its best rank was 623rd, in 1893.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 360.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201247 births
- Best rank
- #623in 1893
- Since 1888
- 2,284people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,826 boys have been named Carlisle in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2012, with 47 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1959, and the 2010s alone account for 20%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Carlisle is used for both sexes: 20% of its bearers are girls (458), most of them born around 2010.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Carlisle | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 9 | |
| 1890s | 36 | |
| 1900s | 10 | |
| 1910s | 188 | |
| 1920s | 231 | |
| 1930s | 176 | |
| 1940s | 155 | |
| 1950s | 108 | |
| 1960s | 66 | |
| 1970s | 92 | |
| 1980s | 70 | |
| 1990s | 76 | |
| 2000s | 54 | |
| 2010s | 365 | |
| 2020s | 190 |
In 2012, its biggest year
Carlisle was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2012 were Jacob, Mason, Ethan, Noah and William. See all of 2012.
Names that rose and fell with Carlisle
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Talmagepeak 1922
- Arleypeak 2012
- Iverpeak 2023
- Anselpeak 2018
- Sonniepeak 2023
- Zenopeak 2024
- Leopeak 2022
- Dempseypeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.